Best Newton Sayings
208 Newton quotes by 161 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!
— Brian Regan
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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
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If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
— Bruno Latour
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
— Felix Klein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
— Jack Adams
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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
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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on…
— Isaac Newton
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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