Newtonian Quotes

#1. Woodrow Wilson later wrote: "The Constitution of the United States has been made under the dominion of the Newtonian theory.

Andrew Thomas

#2. But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion. So pleasant that pleasant was not the word.

Samuel Beckett

#3. Over the years I'd surrendered many vices, among them whiskey, cigarettes, and the various non-Newtonian drugs, but marijuana and I remained steadfast companions.

Michael Chabon

#4. There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.

Terence McKenna

#5. 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

#6. The Far East and the Islamic world produced minds as intelligent and curious as those of Europe. However, between 1500 and 1950 they did not produce anything that comes even close to Newtonian physics or Darwinian biology.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. 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

#8. Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Huston Smith

#9. The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Imre Lakatos

#10. Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

Marianne Williamson

#11. 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

#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. The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

John Shelby Spong

#14. Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

George Gilder

#15. Thanks to the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, and invoking a bunch of Newtonian physics, you can deduce that our planet wobbles, too, taking roughly 26,000 years to trace out a small circle on the sky, a phenomenon known as precession.

Seth Shostak

#16. The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Stanislav Grof

#17. The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

Walter Lippmann

#18. One answer to the transitory nature of imperial rule, in short, is that there is a Newtonian third law of empires. The exercise of imperial power generates an opposite and equal reaction among those affected by it, until they so reorganize themselves as to blunt the imperial edge.

Peter Heather

#19. 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

#20. Physicists abandoned their belief in a Newtonian, material universe because they had come to realize that the universe is not made of matter suspended in empty space but energy.

Bruce H. Lipton

#21. We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David Russell

#22. NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

Ambrose Bierce

#23. Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

Jake Barton

#24. Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

Stanislav Grof

#25. Non-Newtonian calculi ... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

#26. In The Craft the clockwork God of Newtonian determinism has been replaced by the quantum-aware Great Architect who is ready and willing to allow us to contribute to His malleable Plan for the cosmos.

Robert Lomas

#27. Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

Marianne Williamson

#28. Gift yourself the opportunity to allow for your dreams to chase you down.

Steven Cuoco

#29. Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission

Jan Carlzon

#30. I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

Warren Buffett

#31. Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

Shawn Ashmore

#32. I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

Rachelle Lefevre

#33. It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years.

Jostein Gaarder

#34. Well, sir. I look at facts. And the fact is that our world is dying and if we don't all do our best to save it, we aren't going to last much longer.

A.J. Lauer

#35. I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#36. After using a paint chart from a local DIY superstore to identify the skin tone of his penis as midnight chocolate, Miriam stayed down on one knee and offered him the citizenship he had always wanted and the middle-aged white woman he would grudgingly accept.

David F. Porteous

#37. I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Lady Gaga

#38. Readers are my vampires.

Italo Calvino

#39. I'm surprised you stayed," I admitted to him. I had sort of been expecting him to bolt. "I'm never leaving.

Jessica Florence