11) 65583. Wordsworth, William. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. ATTRIBUTION: William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. The Prelude; III. Residence at Cambridge (l. 58–61). ...
12) 7431. Blake, William. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Where Israel s tents do shine so bright. ATTRIBUTION: William Blake (1757–1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau (l. 9–12). ...
13) 60390. Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Newton or Arkwright or Davy, and tolerates none. Not one obscure line, or half line, did he ever write. His meaning lies plain as the daylight. It has the distinctness...
14) 44898. Pope, Alexander. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...God said Let Newton be! and all was light. ATTRIBUTION: Alexander Pope (1688–1744), British satirical poet. Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey...
15) 44897. Pope, Alexander. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Nature and nature s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! ATTRIBUTION: Alexander Pope (1688–1744), British poet. (Published in 1730)....
16) 30930. Jefferson, Thomas. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth...
17) 4677. Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. ATTRIBUTION: W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. For the Time Being; A Christmas...
18) 54712. Sontag, Susan. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine...
19) 10976. Casti, John L. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...The quintessential illustration of this jump in level is the way in which Newton s theory of mechanics explained Kepler s law of planetary motion. Basically, a law...
20) 47727. Russell, Bertrand. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...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,...
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