Buddhism Quote by Voltaire

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...

— W. W. Rouse Ball

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”

— Isabel Paterson

“Today, Stephen Hawking6, just as Newton did so many years before him, is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.”

— Lee Vickers

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and…

— Isaac Barrow

“he described his own ideals, the desire for fulfillment not just as a theorist but also as an experimental physicist. (In the second respect,…

— Abraham Pais

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

— Kit Williams

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

“I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his…

— Christiaan Huygens