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Newton Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- 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…
- 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
- When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk…
- Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the…
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- Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. — Bernard Baruch
- In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz
- Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in… — W. W. Rouse Ball
- It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus. — Theodore Parker
- Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the… — Charles Sanders Peirce
- The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.… — Robert Aris Willmott
- I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is… — Charles Darwin
- What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… — Albert Einstein
- Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould
- Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ... — W. W. Rouse Ball
- All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson