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Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. — Gottfried Leibniz
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he… — Thomas Jefferson
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give… — Daniel Dennett
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels… — Arthur Compton
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural… — Augustus William Hare
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise… — Thomas Young
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be… — Unknown Author
To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with… — Frank Drake
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there… — C. Northcote Parkinson
As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there. — Arthur C. Clarke
There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has reached the point… — Unknown Author
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so… — Robert Aris Willmott
Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not… — Albert Einstein
Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may… — Nick Harkaway
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe… — David Antin
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would… — Martin Rees
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler
In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just… — Pat Benatar
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering… — Albert Einstein

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