Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light.
God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light.
Alexander Pope
"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 three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!
"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians."
—John Maynard Keynes
"If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants who came before me."
—Isaac Newton
"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."
—Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton: The day that apple fell on my head was the most momentous day in the history of science.
Stephen Hawking: Not the apple story again.
Data: That story is generally considered to be apocryphal.
Newton: What? How dare you...
Stephen Hawking: Not the apple story again.
Data: That story is generally considered to be apocryphal.
Newton: What? How dare you...
