Sir Isaac Newton Quote by Bill Walton

Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the…

— John Aubrey

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and…

— Albert Einstein

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

— Anonymous

“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of…

— Albert Einstein

Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would…

— Thomas Young

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

— Auguste Comte

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works,…

— Joseph Priestley

“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

“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

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone.…

— Fritz Leiber

“I just think it's fortunate that Sir Isaac Newton didn't share the sense of humor of a member of the public, because had he…

— Stewart Lee

“Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, so tiny that, as his mother told him years later, he would have fit into a quart…

— Carl Sagan