All things Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and…

— John D. Barrow

In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is…

— Albert Einstein

“It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us the key…

— Albert Einstein

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

“While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of…

— David Hume

“The revolution of science that Newton single-handedly achieved in Principia was primarily that the laws of motion and gravity, and the nature of space…

— David Flynn

Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for…

— James McCosh

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

“the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac Newton appropriated words that were ancient and vague—force, mass, motion, and even time—and gave…

— James Gleick

While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of…

— David Hume

“Newton's equations of absolute exactitude and certainty ("classical determinism") were replaced by Schrodinger's new equations and Heisenberg's mathematics of fuzziness, indeterminacy, and probability.”

— Leon M. Lederman