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Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse. -- Merv Griffin
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. -- Bernard Baruch
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. -- Felix Klein
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! -- Alexander Pope
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. -- William Hazlitt
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. -- Bertrand Russell
Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. -- James C. Maxwell
[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton. -- Albert Einstein
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. -- Edward Hopper
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. -- Jack Adams
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics? -- Mark Hyman
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians. -- John Maynard Keynes
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. -- Albert Claude
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. -- Albert Einstein
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. -- Kit Williams
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography. -- Terry Richardson
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too. -- Steve Jobs
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. -- Gottfried Leibniz
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. -- Susanna Kaysen
"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish." -- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. -- William Wordsworth
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
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. -- Joseph Priestley
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered. -- David Chalmers
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
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new... -- Alexander Fleming
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us. -- Daniel Dennett
The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God. -- Seth Shostak
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
People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple. -- Ada Yonath
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
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time. -- Isaac Newton
Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. -- James C. Maxwell
Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics. -- Benjamin Haydon
Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton. -- Wasif Ali Wasif
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton. -- Auguste Comte
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep. -- William Blake
Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides -- John Maynard Keynes
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women. -- John Maynard Keynes
If the apple hit Newton's nose, Newton's nose hit the apple. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived. -- Michio Kaku
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec. -- Joe Hart
Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction. -- Dorothy Parker
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians. -- Eric Roberts
Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it. -- Philippe Kahn
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. -- Arthur Koestler
I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics. -- Michio Kaku
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. -- Saul Bellow
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. -- Bertrand Russell
Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland. -- Minnie Riperton
Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence. -- Tyler Cowen
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it. -- Hermann Bondi
As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I love Thandie Newton. I love her fashion sense as she is just really classic. -- Leona Lewis
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort. -- Albert Einstein
I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? -- James Merrill
Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton. -- Chaim Weizmann
So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible. -- Richard P. Feynman
You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. -- Edward Witten
It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia. -- Olivia Newton-John
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints. -- Loretta Lynn
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. -- Alexander Pope
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head. -- A.C. Grayling
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. -- Bob Seger
If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. -- J. I. Packer
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method -- Nicholas Murray Butler
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ... -- W. W. Rouse Ball
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever. -- Imre Lakatos
Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton. -- Charlotte Mason
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus. -- Theodore Parker
Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes. -- Albert Einstein
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. -- Isaac Asimov
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy. -- Erica Jong
One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. -- Paul Valery
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. -- Richard Courant
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. -- Albert Einstein
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
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term. -- Bruno Latour
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. -- Richard Dawkins
You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods. -- Stephenie Meyer
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. -- Thomas Jefferson
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place! -- Viktor Schauberger
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles. -- Richard Linklater
The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright. -- William Blake
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. -- W. W. Rouse Ball
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
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. -- W. W. Rouse Ball
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
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency. -- Isaac Barrow
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It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. -- Bill Gosper
Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness. -- Aspen Matis
And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie. -- W. H. Auden
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
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
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
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton. -- David Antin
I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100. -- Michael Rosenbaum
Had PoincarÃ© 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
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's. -- Albert Einstein
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
'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
No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein -- Isaac Asimov
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all. -- Randal Kleiser
The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion. -- Richard Digance
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable. -- Isaac Asimov
I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about an ultrafeminine woman for me. -- Hari Nef
At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature. -- James H. Billington
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
Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare. -- Augustus William Hare
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

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