Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time."
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Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"What goes up must come down."
Jack Adams
Artist
"I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes."
Nicholas Murray Butler
Politician, Educator
"The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method"
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"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."
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"You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories."
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"Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working."
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"Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out."
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"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."
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"[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton."
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"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier."
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"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."
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"If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations."
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"If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple."
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"I love Thandie Newton. I love her fashion sense as she is just really classic."
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"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."
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