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1->''Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:\
2God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light.''
3-->'''Alexander Pope'''
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5->''"This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class Dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth]]. That means: '''Sir Isaac Newton is [[MemeticBadass the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!]]'''''
6-->-- '''DrillSergeantNasty''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''
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8->''"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians."''
9-->--'''John Maynard Keynes'''
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11->''"If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants who came before me."''
12-->--'''Isaac Newton'''
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14->''"I know not what the world will make of my labors, but it seems to me that I have been but as a child playing on the seashore, occasionally finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the immense ocean of truth extended unexplored before me."''
15-->--'''Isaac Newton'''
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17->'''Isaac Newton:''' The day that apple fell on my head was the most momentous day in the history of science.\
18'''Creator/StephenHawking:''' [[AC: Not the apple story again.]]\
19'''Data:''' That story is generally considered to be apocryphal.\
20'''Newton:''' What? How ''dare'' you...

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