Calculations Quote by Hermann Bondi

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

— Benjamin Haydon

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

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

— W. W. Rouse Ball

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

...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

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

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

— Kit Williams

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone.…

— Fritz Leiber

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

— Isaac Newton