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Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings… — George Polya
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles. — Richard Linklater
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds,… — Robert Aris Willmott
Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This… — Orison Swett Marden
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically… — Francis Atterbury
Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of… — Brian Ellis
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. — Bill Gosper
Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. — W. W. Rouse Ball
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton… — Voltaire
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote… — Walter Bagehot
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged… — Alexander Fleming
Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that,… — Augustus De Morgan
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. — Albert Claude
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians. — John Maynard Keynes
NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to… — Ambrose Bierce
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always… — Robert Frost
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort. — Albert Einstein
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of… — Stefan Collini
I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago… — Michael Rosenbaum
Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain at all times:… — Caroline Rhea
The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was… — Richard Digance
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
Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we… — William Whewell

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