Fourth Quote by Eric Temple Bell

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of…

— Eric Temple Bell

Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic;…

— Anonymous

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to…

— Eric Temple Bell

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

— W. W. Rouse Ball

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

— Kit Williams

“Isaac Newton was a brilliant British mathematician and physicist who came up with three laws of motion,”

— Jerome Pohlen

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted…

— Walter Isaacson

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

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would…

— Thomas Young