It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium - or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.
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.
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
I love Thandie Newton. I love her fashion sense as she is just really classic.
[Ernest Rutherford is]. . . a second Newton.
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.
I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.
He looks at you like. . . like you're something to eat.
I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too.
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.
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.
