A Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English - Writer
May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

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

Arthur Koestler

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.

Booth Tarkington

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.

James Marsh

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.

Ellen Bass

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

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

Albert Einstein

When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

Lord Byron

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

A.C. Grayling

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

William Hazlitt

I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!

Viktor Schauberger

I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it would get us a head of Atari in the phone book. He told Wozniak if a better name did not hit them by the next afternoon, they would just stick with apple and they did. 1 Apr 1976

Walter Isaacson

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

W. H. Auden

They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit its nose.

Umberto Eco

Sometimes you get hit on the nose and nothing happens, then you get hit and something breaks.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

Robert M. Pirsig

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