Newton Quotes

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Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

What goes up must come down.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

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

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

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.