Newton Quotes

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.

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

Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

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

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

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

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

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

It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place.

If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein or Newton or something like that because their claims were supposed to apply universally. But the claim of somebody who is studying a particular feature of the evolutionary process like whether it's very fast or very slow, or occurs in steps and so on, that's not a universal claim, that's a rather specialised claim and so you can't claim to great fame and great success.

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

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion.

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.