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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

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

— W. W. Rouse Ball

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would…

— Thomas Young

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell

“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

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

— Charles H. Townes

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

“Franklin’s scientific achievements placed him in the pantheon with Newton. Franklin’s experiments, he wrote in 1941, “afforded a basis for the explanation for all…

— Walter Isaacson

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the…

— Seth Lloyd

“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was…

— Voltaire

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

— Albert Einstein