Apples Quote by Charles Lyell

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

— William Hazlitt

“The history of the apple is too absurd. Whether the apple fell or not, how can any one believe that such a discovery could…

— Carl Friedrich Gauß

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

— Paul Valery

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. :D

— Bernard Baruch

Physics would have been much easier if... Tree had fallen on newton's head instead of the apple

— LyLe

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

— Albert Einstein

“Knowledge about the moon's surface is not based on and derived from mountains and craters but from factual statements about mountains and craters.”

— Anonymous

Millions saw an apple falling but only Newton asked why; because the apple didnt fall onto his head but into his mind.

— Vikrant Parsai

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved…

— Charles Francis Richter

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

— Bertrand Russell

I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!

— Viktor Schauberger

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions…

— George Julius Poulett Scrope