Activity Quote by George Spencer-Brown

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Sir Isaac Newton Imagination is more important…

— Sir Isaac Newton Albert Einstein

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

— Hermann Bondi

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

— Isaac Newton

Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for…

— James McCosh

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

— Anonymous

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

— Isaac Newton

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

...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind…

— Charles Darwin

Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic…

— Lewis Wolpert

I noticed that understanding truth is a difficult endeavour, many times impossible, and I continued to look for truth.

— Mariana Fulger

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

— Barry Long

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible…

— Umberto Eco