Newton Quotes

• He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

  Isaac Newton

  Believe, Thinking, Half

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• OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Attention, Body

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

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Science, Night

  "Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton" l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Science, Age, Lasts

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Mind

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Time, Science, Done

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• 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.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Genius, World, Mathematician

  "Introduction to Astronomy" by F. R. Moulton, New York, (p. 199), 1906.

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• There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Men, Weight Loss

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.370, Routledge

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  Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "New York Post" Newspaper, June 24, 1965.

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• Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

  Isaac Newton

  Thinking, Law, Gravity

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• Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

  Arthur Koestler

  Science, Discovery, Apples

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions.

  Fritjof Capra

  Views, Ideas, Our World

  "The Turning Point". Book by Fritjof Capra, www.juwing.sp.ru. 1982.

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• Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Law, Mind

  James Clerk Maxwell (2006). “Five of Maxwell's Papers: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

  Minnie Riperton

  Australia Day, Singing, Blonde

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• We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Diversity, Political

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• Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equation-no, scratch that, the only things we really know are Maxwell's equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That's all we know that's true. All the rest are man's laws

  Dean Kamen

  Real, Men, Law

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• 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.

  Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

  Brain, Development, Inches

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• As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Christian, Strong, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.526

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• In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Hands, Icons, Grease

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• Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Writing, Good Luck, Science

  W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Richard Lewontin

  Steps, Study, Fame

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain at all times: 'Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don't do it.'

  Caroline Rhea

  Song, Grease, Brain

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• Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

  John Maynard Keynes

  School

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• Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Sky, Shining

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• 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.

  Richard Digance

  Science, Law, Made

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