Science Quote by Thomas S. Kuhn

“I likewise thought—when I was solemnly first introduced to it at the age of thirteen—that “science” had fully explained the motions of the planets,…

— Peter Hitchens

“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

“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life.…

— Charles Darwin

“Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics'…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense…

— Laurence Sterne

“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

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“he made it his aim so to arrange the theory that, no matter how the choice was made, the phenomena of gravitation, so far…

— Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the…

— John Aubrey

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation…

— I. Bernard Cohen

If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.

— Bruno Latour