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If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make)…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”

— Isabel Paterson

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to…

— Eric Temple Bell

The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That…

— Richard Digance

“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

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

— Chaim Weizmann

“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was…

— Voltaire

“When Isaac Newton embarked on his great program, he encountered a fundamental lack of definition where it was most needed. He began with a…

— James Gleick

All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it first. Once…

— Arthur Mattuck

Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of…

— Ian Stewart

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...

— W. W. Rouse Ball