Newtonian Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the…
— Arthur Koestler
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The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.
— John Shelby Spong
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In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
— Huston Smith
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The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into…
— Imre Lakatos
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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
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Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In…
— Terence McKenna
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Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that,…
— Marianne Williamson
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Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite…
— Oliver Heaviside
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The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution.…
— Walter Lippmann
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Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite…
— Stanislav Grof
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Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells,…
— Stanislav Grof
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Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of…
— Bruce Lipton
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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
— David Russell
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Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in…
— Marshall McLuhan
Who Wrote These Newtonian Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Newtonian Quotes as follows: