Christmas day Quote by Carl Sagan

“ Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at…

— Augustus De Morgan

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy…

— Isaac Newton

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

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

— W. W. Rouse Ball

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

“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

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

— Michio Kaku

“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

“I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his…

— Christiaan Huygens

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