Newton Quote by Albert Einstein

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

— Chaim Weizmann

“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever…

— Joseph John Thomson

“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their wondrous mathematical…

— Frederick William Sanderson

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used…

— Ernest Rutherford

No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of…

— C.P. Snow

“The year that Rutherford died (1938) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth.…

— Pyotr Kapitsa

“In his secretiveness he didn’t merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.”

— Bill Bryson

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

— Albert Einstein

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and…

— Isaac Barrow

Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

— Michio Kaku

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

— Stephen Hawking