Extraordinary Quote by Joseph Priestley

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

— Isaac Newton

“The revolution of science that Newton single-handedly achieved in Principia was primarily that the laws of motion and gravity, and the nature of space…

— David Flynn

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

— W. W. Rouse Ball

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

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

— Michio Kaku

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other…

— Albert Einstein

“While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of…

— David Hume

"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things…

— Terry Pratchett

“When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the Creator to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Kit Williams