#newton

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#magic #science #age

Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#mike-newton #twilight-saga #violence #death

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#laws #light #nature #newton #science

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered. ↗

— David Chalmers

#around #discovered #fundamental #had #i