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Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:… — Carl Sagan
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and… — Arthur Koestler
It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve! — Brian Regan
The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what… — Mark Dever
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term. — Bruno Latour
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics… — Brian Greene
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we… — Joseph Priestley
Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the… — Dean Kamen
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing… — Julian Schwinger
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product… — Richard Courant
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. — Jack Adams
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison… — David Bentley Hart
. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on… — Isaac Newton
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify,… — Gerald Weinberg
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle… — Lee Smolin
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect… — Aldous Huxley
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts… — Edwin Percy Whipple
I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place! — Viktor Schauberger

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