Books Quote by Christiaan Huygens

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

— Albert Einstein

“In his secretiveness he didn’t merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.”

— Bill Bryson

“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was…

— Voltaire

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...

— W. W. Rouse Ball

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his…

— Christiaan Huygens

“he described his own ideals, the desire for fulfillment not just as a theorist but also as an experimental physicist. (In the second respect,…

— Abraham Pais

“While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of…

— David Hume

“The genius of men like Newton and Einstein lies in that: they ask transparent, innocent questions which turn out to have catastrophic answers. The…

— Jacob Bronowski

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

— Albert Einstein

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works,…

— Joseph Priestley

“Newton showed that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”

— Yuval Noah Harari