Art Quote by Isaac Newton

The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords…

— Ernst Mach

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The question I hoped to answer,was how much mechanics Aristotle had known, how much he had left for people such as Galileo and Newton…

— Thomas Kuhn

“the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac Newton appropriated words that were ancient and vague—force, mass, motion, and even time—and gave…

— James Gleick

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made…

— William Whewell

All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing…

— Ernst Mach

“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac…

— James Gleick

For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock,…

— Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

— Wilhelm Reich

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the…

— Joseph Addison

“What tends to be forgotten, amid all the cheerleading for today’s technology, is that people in ancient times might have lacked our current theoretical…

— John Michael Greer

Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are…

— Richard Ballantine