Draws Quote by David Hume

“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

“Now if Newton had been a very plain, very dull, very matter-of-fact man, all that would be easily explicable. But I must make you…

— Jacob Bronowski

“When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the Creator to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy…

— Isaac Newton

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

— Bill Bryson

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and…

— Albert Einstein

“The revolution of science that Newton single-handedly achieved in Principia was primarily that the laws of motion and gravity, and the nature of space…

— David Flynn

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by…

— Isaac Asimov

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

Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that…

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— W. W. Rouse Ball