Newton Quotes

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certa...

What goes up must come down.

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematic...

...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next a...

When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No ques...

It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments o...

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

Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became...

Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.

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

One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Ha...

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who ...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

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

There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the wa...