Earthly things Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Newton was sitting under an apple tree, an apple fell on his head, and he suddenly thought of the Universal Law of Gravitation.. agree..but…

— Vagabond

“It is never a question of belief ; the only scientific attitude one can take on any subject is whether it is true .…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to…

— Michael Brooks

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

— Isaac Newton

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

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

— Anonymous

“Newton found the law of gravitation not in a written page, but in a falling apple.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet; the whole notion of…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay of these…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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 split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and…

— Seth Shostak

“The physics of gravity was not reserved only for large celestial objects to efficiently exert.”

— Gayendra Abeywardane