Top 100 Newton's Quotes
#1. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.
Stephen Jay Gould
#2. 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.
Thomas Young
#3. There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics ... Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.
D. James Baker
#4. I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
Christian Louboutin
#5. 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.
Gerald Weinberg
#6. We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.
Isaac Asimov
#7. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein
#8. Newton's third law says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.' And that's what I'm looking for. My opposite, and my equal." ~ Gavin Slater
Heidi Joy Tretheway
#9. Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.
Julian Schwinger
#10. In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.
Albert Einstein
#11. Newton's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible.
Stephen Hawking
#12. As Einstein once wrote (more ringingly in German than in this English translation by one of us [DG]) to honor Isaac Newton: Look unto the stars to teach us How the master's thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton's math Silently along its path.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#13. No one must think that Newton's great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.
Albert Einstein
#14. Love should be according to Newton's third law that states: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Stefan Boldisor
#16. So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.
Stephen Hawking
#17. 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
#18. So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.
Richard P. Feynman
#19. John Newton's final recorded words: My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.
Tony Reinke
#20. If you eat, there will be shit. It's like Newton's Law or something.
Oriana Small
#21. An event is a stretch of time, and time, according to physicists, is a continuous variable-an inexorable cosmic flow, in Newton's world, or a fourth dimension in a seamless hyperspace, in Einstein's. But the human mind carves this fabric into the discrete swatches we call events.
Steven Pinker
#22. Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms of motions and interactions of primary neutral corpuscles
Thomas S. Kuhn
#23. He wanted to prostrate at newton's alter and weep with gratitude for the blessing that made all things fall to the goddamn ground
J.R. Ward
#24. Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever.
Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.
Florence Nightingale
#25. Newton's 3rd law of motion, every action has equal and opposite reaction, it doesn't just operate in Physical world. In good old days, it used to be called the Theory of Karma.
Kirtida Gautam
#26. [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
Hermann Bondi
#27. Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.
Arthur Koestler
#28. 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
Voltaire
#29. Newton's First was a real bitch, not open to negotiation.
Peter Watts
#30. I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
A.C. Grayling
#31. 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.
Michio Kaku
#32. For Newton and the scientists of his time, God had set up the universe and set it in motion. Newton's laws simply governed the running of the universe. That is how Newton saw the workings of God and the workings of God's universe.
Evan Harris Walker
#33. your mind becomes a supercomputer capable of calculating the gyrations of your car, multiplying that by the speed of the fall over the angle of descent, factoring in Newton's laws of motion and, in a split second, coming to the panicked conclusion that this is gonna hurt like hell.
Andrew Davidson
#34. Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple
Amy Zhang
#35. Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
Dorothy Parker
#36. Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done.
Hugh Laurie
#37. You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.
Criss Angel
#38. May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.
William Blake
#39. The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
Paul Davies
#40. In all of human history there may never have been a mind as brilliant as Isaac Newton's - just think what an amazing, unheard-of intellectual effort it took to discover a single law that accounted for the fall of earthly bodies and the movement of the planets! Well, Newton believed in God.
Michel Houellebecq
#41. The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time most people took the "up" of heaven and the "down" of hell to be more or less descriptive.
Northrop Frye
#42. The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
Imre Lakatos
#43. I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.
Michio Kaku
#44. The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
Erica Jong
#45. Newton produced three times as many theological papers than scientific. These manuscripts consistently recorded Newton's belief in the author of creation as one and the same as the author of the Law and prophecy contained in the Bible.
David Flynn
#47. Horatio Lyle hit the floor, the floor hit him, and the floor came out the winner. It was in times like these, he told himself, when Newton's Second Law really made its point.
Catherine Webb
#48. Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
Richard P. Feynman
#49. We all collide. It made him think of Newton's third law of motion:
for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It was like, when
you collided with someone, they would not be in the same position as they
used to be. Everyone equally affected one another.
J.R. Lenk
#50. The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Newton's third law expressed as violence. Holden's
James S.A. Corey
#51. No." John Newton's eyes warmed. "One has no guarantee that the path the Lords places us on will be the easy one, Elizabeth. Obedience to His will is a glorious thing, but, aye, it has many challenges. Yet," and he smiled fully, "in the end, no one can doubt that it is the best way.
Alicia A. Willis
#52. Every time I come to Auburn it's nothing but love
Cam Newton
#53. There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
Wayne Newton
#54. It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.
Cam Newton
#55. Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#56. Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
Thandie Newton
#57. If I had seen further than others, it's because I stood upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
#58. The sky's a good place to look," he said. "And I got a notion it's a good place to go.
Robert Newton Peck
#59. They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.'
And?'
Chaos theory throws it right out the window.
Michael Crichton
#60. There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
Olivia Newton-John
#61. I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.
Huey Newton
#62. We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
Newton N. Minow
#63. I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
Thandie Newton
#64. When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.
Cam Newton
#65. Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do.
Robert Newton Peck
#66. Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.
Thandie Newton
#67. When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.
Thandie Newton
#68. There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.
Juice Newton
#69. In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
Cam Newton
#70. As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you have so much less time to develop as an artist and perfect your craft. So many things today are "instant" and, that's not always a good thing.
Olivia Newton-John
#71. It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
Helmut Newton
#72. Newton said, 'If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants.' These days we stand on each other's feet!
Richard Hamming
#73. What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
Cam Newton
#74. It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.
Helmut Newton
#75. I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
Olivia Newton-John
#76. You have this great big fantasy life, and it looks like a non-stop 24/7 party. But what do you do when you get to the end of the Internet and there's nothing left to buy? There's just a picture of Wayne Newton flipping you off.
Charlie Sheen
#77. I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
Helmut Newton
#78. I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.
Olivia Newton-John
#79. Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it's an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep level, we have no real evidence that when we wake up we're the same person who went to sleep.
Sarah Newton
#80. There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.
Helmut Newton
#81. I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.
Becki Newton
#82. I just love to watch people get scared. It's like, 'Yes, I accomplished my goal!'
Kathryn Newton
#83. Oh you're one of those people are you? The people who ask God for something and when they get it, they tell God to forget about answering that particular prayer because it's just happened. That's one of my pet hates, I'm sorry.
Elizabeth Newton
#84. Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.
John Newton
#85. Why did it take so long for a Darwin to arrive on the scene? What delayed humanity's tumbling to that luminously simple idea which seems, on the face of it, so much easier to grasp than the mathematical ideas given us by Newton two centuries earlier - or, indeed, by Archimedes two millennia earlier?
Richard Dawkins
#86. It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy - about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.
Daniel Keyes
#87. The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.
Tom Stoppard
#88. They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.
Isaac Newton
#89. There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.
Cam Newton
#90. A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person
Neal Stephenson
#91. I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
Becki Newton
#92. You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
Wayne Newton
#93. There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
Herbert Newton Casson
#94. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
Cam Newton
#95. Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
Henry Adams
#96. Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
Becki Newton
#97. I wanted to give men an accessible line of clothing that's comfortable yet stylish and will help them to present the best version of themselves. It's easy - when you look good, you feel good.
Cam Newton
#98. '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.
Josh Young
#99. Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.
Fritz Leiber
#100. I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
Becki Newton
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