Newton Quotes - Page 2

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that.

He looks at you like... like you're something to eat.

The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

You all know Newt Gingrich. Newt is short for Newton. People say if that's the case, what is Mitt short for? It's short for 'Mittens.'

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

I like the drawings. And as a photography fan myself, I would look at Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and like to see the initial notes or drawings, to see where the ideas grew from. Also my sketches are key to my work because I came to realise early on that by doing drawings, I could formulate a plan of what I was thinking of - I could take control and direct the work.

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.

I love Thandie Newton. I love her fashion sense as she is just really classic.

AMAZING GRACE is about the man who wrote "Amazing Grace," John Newton. It's a really great show - I have been workshopping it for a while now, actually.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.