Newton Quotes

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

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

If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.

I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about an ultrafeminine woman for me.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

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

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.

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.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

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.

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

...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—

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.'

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

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

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

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

The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

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

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

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

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.

Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.

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

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve.

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.'

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

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

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

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.

The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.