Sir Isaac Newton

Famous quotes containing the words isaac newton, isaac and/or newton:

    “If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
    —Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

    “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.

    To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)

    “Where the statue stood
    Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
    The marble index of a mind for ever
    Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)