Brain Quote by Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

— Christiaan Huygens

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better…

— C.P. Snow

“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir…

— Sebastian Faulks

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a…

— Timothy Leary

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning,…

— William Hazlitt

“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

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

— Isaac Newton

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and…

— Albert Einstein

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Now if Newton had been a very plain, very dull, very matter-of-fact man, all that would be easily explicable. But I must make you…

— Jacob Bronowski

“That was a lesson everyone (every human?) learned before puberty, not to let reality seem diminished by fiction. As the proverb went, It's bad…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky