Isaac Newton Quote by Jerome Pohlen

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that…

— Phillips Brooks

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

— Stephen Hawking

Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to…

— Warren Buffett

“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and…

— John D. Barrow

The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That…

— Richard Digance

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

— Anonymous

“Anybody who has done high school physics knows Newton’s Third Law. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You push against…

— Sean J. Halford

“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

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

— Kit Williams

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

— W. W. Rouse Ball

“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”

— Isabel Paterson

“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms of motions…

— Thomas S. Kuhn