Algebra Quote by Vladimir Arnold

The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show…

— Johannes Kepler

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

— Cornelius Lanczos

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in…

— Andreas Osiander

“Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that the same…

— Carl Sagan

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of…

— George Phillips Bond

The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe,…

— Francis Bacon

Talk about celestial bodies.

— Jackson Browne

The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just…

— Stefan Collini

“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions…

— George Boole

“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