Newtonian Mechanics Quotes

#1. The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart.

Richard Paul Evans

#4. It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.

Anne Tyler

#5. And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

Benjamin Kane Ethridge

#6. A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition ... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

Willis Lamb

#7. I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.

Jane Goodall

#8. The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#9. Old photograph of his father, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew,

J.K. Rowling

#10. Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.

Tom Ford

#11. I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

Angela Merkel

#12. Seriousness of mind was a prerequisite for understanding Newtonian physics. I am not convinced it is not a handicap in understanding quantum theory.

Connie Willis

#13. You've done proper already, and it hasn't worked. It's time you do dirty.

Jennifer Probst