Principia Quotes
- In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural… — Augustus William Hare
- I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in… — Bertrand Russell
- 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
- I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work,… — Christiaan Huygens
- At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from… — Sherwin B. Nuland
- Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica… — Alonzo Church