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Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. — Joseph Fort Newton
Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua — lo que ignoramos es un océano.
A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian — Isaac Asimov, Adding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science
Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. — Derek Landy, Death Bringer
...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will b — John Adams, Adams-Jefferson Letters
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumeria — John Maynard Keynes
In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination — Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe
One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talki — C.P. Snow, Variety of Men
Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump — Geoffrey Miller
It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history wer — Abdus Salam, Ideals & Realities 2/E
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematica — Nicholas Murray Butler
There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked f — Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the finding — Carl Sagan
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. — Isaac Newton
He was back in the water, not braving but frowning, synchronised swimming, not swimming but sinking, toward the godsquid — China Miéville, Kraken
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate — George Boole
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God — but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of t — Frederick the Great
And so from then onwards, Daniel understood that the point of this grueling sundial project was not merely to plot the c — Neal Stephenson