Success Quote by Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

— Earl Wilson

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

— Earl Warren

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

— W. W. Rouse Ball

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet…

— Willis Lamb

“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

“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

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

“In the popular folklore of American history, there is a sense in which the founders’ various achievements in natural philosophy—Franklin’s electrical experiments, Jefferson’s botany—serve…

— Steven Johnson

“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 was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works,…

— Joseph Priestley

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal…

— Jon Bon Jovi