History Quote by Carl Sagan

“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

“Magnetism is, of course, not the same as gravity, but Kepler’s fundamental innovation here is nothing short of breathtaking: he proposed that quantitative physical…

— Carl Sagan

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

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

— Auguste Comte

[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one…

— Henry Adams

“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions…

— George Boole

[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory…

— Albert Einstein

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Newton showed that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler 's or Newton 's discoveries could become known to people in no other…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Magnetism also was an influence felt at a distance, and in a stunning anticipation of the idea of universal gravitation, Kepler suggested that the…

— Carl Sagan

“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of an elastic…

— William Kingdon Clifford