Top 373 Newton Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you'd wish to meet. Newton was solitary and reclusive, even vain and vindictive in his later years when he was president of the society.

No theory changes what it is a theory about. Nothing is changed because we look at it, talk about it, or analyze it in a new way. Keats drank confusion to Newton for analyzing the rainbow, but the rainbow remained as beautiful as ever and became for many even more beautiful. Man has not changed because we look at him, talk about him, and analyze him scientifically. ... What does change is our chance of doing something about the subject of a theory. Newton's analysis of the light in a rainbow was a step in the direction of the laser.

I liked Olivia Newton-John.

What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

I've never been a big fan of Cam Newton's.

The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

Though I have been acclaimed for 'Newton,' but my personally favourite is 'Gurgaon.'

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

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

Big game? I'll take Cam Newton over Aaron Rodgers.

Whatever good is happening with 'Newton' is because of my mom's blessings. I really believe in that.

Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

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

With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.

Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories.

Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

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

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

The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.

Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.

I think that the NFL is better when Cam Newton is playing at his highest level.

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

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

Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.

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

'Newton' has given a lot to our cinema.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

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

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

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

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

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

Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

I'm a big fan of Cam Newton's swag most of the time.

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

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

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

I am very proud of 'Newton.' It's a wonderful film.

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

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

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

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.

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.