1) 41420. Newton, Isaac. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...British physicist, mathematician, universal genius. Memoirs of Newton, v. II, ch. 27, ed. Brewster (1855). Perhaps the most famous bit of Newton on Newton....
2) 54088. Shlain, Leonard. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Both Leonardo and Newton had fecund imaginations from which poured forth a stream of discoveries, gadgets, engineering marvels, and farsighted contrivances. Newton...
3) 41419. Newton, Isaac. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...British mathematician, physicist. Memoirs of Newton, vol. 2, ch. 27, ed. David Brewster (1855)....
4) 41422. Newton, John. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...That sav d a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. ATTRIBUTION: John Newton (1725–1807), British curate and hymn-writer. Faith...
5) 41417. Newton, Isaac. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...British physicist, mathematician, universal genius. Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675. A famous bon mot strangely ill describing what would appear to have...
6) 41421. Newton, Isaac. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence...
7) 41423. Newton, John. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion city of our God! He, whose word cannot be broken, Form d for thee his own abode: On the rock of ages founded, What can shake...
8) 41418. Newton, Isaac. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...British physicist, mathematician, universal genius. Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675. With reference to his dependency on Galileo s and Kepler s work in physics...
9) 65573. Wordsworth, William. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ATTRIBUTION: William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. The Prelude, bk. 3. Of the statue of Newton at Trinity...
10) 19874. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. But you must have the believing and...
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