Book Quote by Stephen Hawking

“Isaac Newton was a brilliant British mathematician and physicist who came up with three laws of motion,”

— Jerome Pohlen

“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

Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law…

— Albert Einstein

“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

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

“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

“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

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in…

— Julian Schwinger

“Newton showed that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“Physics is the science of motion.”

— Christoph Schiller

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no…

— Paul Davies