Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Newton

Quotes about: Newton

• 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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Long Ago, Age

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

• When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Men, Law, Earth

• Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Law, Nuts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings.... Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Philosophy, Writing

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.183, Prometheus Books

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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Law, Newton, Gravity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Newton, Theory, Cases

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Law, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Looks, Speed, Newton

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mistake, Way, Newton

  "What Neil deGrasse Tyson Can Teach You About Mental Health" by Nick Holt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2014.

• I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring him into the present to hang out with me. See, that might be terrifying because his head will just explode once he sees everything that was derived from his discoveries, but I'd spend more time with someone who I think is one of the most brilliant minds our species has ever known.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Discovery, Mind

  "A Sense of Wonder: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan on Cosmos: A Spacetime Journey!". Interview with bloggers and journalists, eclipsemagazine.com. June 08, 2014.

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