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• I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Mind, Doe, Offers

  Letter to Fatio de Duillier, quoted in "René Dugas, Mechanics in the seventeenth century" (1958), p. 440, July 11, 1687.

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• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  Imre Lakatos

  Successful, Example, Research

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves prematurely at times, and excessively at others, but a good descriptive taxonomy, as Darwin found in developing his theory, and as Newton found in the work of Kepler, is the mother of laws and theories.

  Raymond Cattell

  Mother, Law, Intellectual

  "Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action". Book by Raymond Cattell (p. 61), 1987.

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• Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Girl, Heaven, Mind

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• The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

  J. I. Packer

  Church, Canon, Gravity

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Phones, Names, Voice

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• A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Doors, Car, Skins

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• So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Pencils

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• 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

  Law, Apples, Important

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.42, Booklassic

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• If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.

  J. G. Ballard

  Weekend, Play, Eden

  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.99, Macmillan

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• The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Moon, Thinking, Discovery

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• You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Understanding, Tutorial

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.

  William P. Young

  Regret, Believe, Names

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• Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable
  three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Strong, Three, Might

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it, little snowflake, but know it won't make a bit of difference until after puberty. It's Newton's lost law: anything that makes you unique later will get your chocolate milk stolen and your eye blackened as a kid. Won't it, Sebastian? Oh, yes, it will, my little Mandarin Chinese-learning, Poe-reciting, high-top-wearing friend. God bless you, wherever you are.

  Sloane Crosley

  Teacher, Believe, Kids

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.60, Portobello Books

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• Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by
  themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for
  ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Order, Class, Ordinary

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Book, Childhood

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• 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

  Fall, Science, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Tenth”

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• If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that no mathematician of any age or country has ever surpassed Gauss in the combination of an abundant fertility of invention with an absolute vigorousness in demonstration.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Country, Names, Age

  Henry John Stephen Smith (1965). “Collected Mathematical Papers”, p.74, American Mathematical Soc.

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• So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.

  Clint Walker

  Agency, Eight, Law

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• You all know Newt Gingrich. Newt is short for Newton. People say if that's the case, what is Mitt short for? It's short for 'Mittens.'

  David Letterman

  People, Mittens, Newts

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

  Philippe Kahn

  Discipline

  "Accelerometrics: The Art of Motion Sensing". www.fullpower.com. July 10, 2008.

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• 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.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Men, Names

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

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Fundamentals, Physics

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wall, Humanity, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1987). “Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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