{"quotes":[{"text":"If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!","author":"Bill Gaede","tags":["einstein","gaede","god","hawking","mathematics","newton","physics","science"],"id":1341,"author_id":"Bill+Gaede"},{"text":"What goes up must come down.","author":"Isaac Newton","tags":["apple","newton","science"],"id":43038,"author_id":"Isaac+Newton"},{"text":"I 'love' reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.","author":"Moffat Machingura","tags":["books","caeser","christ","christianity","confucius","consume","creativity","diligence","eat","empire","feel-like","franklin","greatness","homer","invincible","love","love-reading","mind","moffat","newton","read","reading","reading-habits","sir-moffat","socrates","swallow","world"],"id":58701,"author_id":"Moffat+Machingura"},{"text":"If you’ve managed to do one good thing,the ocean doesn’t care.But when Newton’s applefell toward the earth,the earth, ever so slightly, felltoward the apple as well.","author":"Ellen Bass","tags":["apple","earth","falling","newton","ocean"],"id":99076,"author_id":"Ellen+Bass"},{"text":"From a philosophical point of view, Leibniz's most interesting argument was that absolute space conflicted with what he called the principle of the identity of indiscernibles (PII). PII says that if two objects are indiscernible, then they are identical, I.E. They are really one and the same object. What does it mean to call two objects indiscernible? It means that no difference at all can be found between them--they have exactly the same attributes. So if PII is true, then any two genuinely distinct objects must differ in at least one of their attributes--otherwise they would be one, not two. PII is intuitively quite compelling. It certainly is not easy to find an example of two distinct objects that share all their attributes. Even two mass-produced factory goods will normally differ in innumerable ways, even if the differences cannot be detected with the naked eye.Leibniz asks us to imagine two different universes, both containing exactly the same objects. In Universe One, each object occupies a particular location in absolute space.In Universe Two, each object has been shifted to a different location in absolute space, two miles to the east (for example). There would be no way of telling these two universes apart. For we cannot observe the position of an object in absolute space, as Newton himself admitted. All we can observe are the positions of objects relative to each other, and these would remain unchanged--for all objects are shifted by the same amount. No observations or experiments could ever reveal whether we lived in universe One or Two.","author":"Samir Okasha","tags":["astrophysics","leibniz","love","newton","philosophy","physics","pii","principle-of-indiscernibles","science","space","thought-experiments"],"id":132381,"author_id":"Samir+Okasha"},{"text":"There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["albert-einstein","disprove","einstein","honor","imperfection","interesting","isaac-newton","newton","revere","reward","science","structure"],"id":158210,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.","author":"Edward Hopper","tags":["paint","newton","directly "],"id":169639,"author_id":"Edward+Hopper"},{"text":"...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever it falls, and our John has been too much worn to contend much longer with conflicting factions. I call him our John, because, when you were at the Cul de sac at Paris, he appeared to me to be almost as much your boy as.","author":"John Adams","tags":["agnosticism","belief","blasphemy","confessions-of-faith","creeds","episcopal","europeans","flourens","golden-rule","herschel","isaac-newton","jean-pierre-flourens","jefferson","jews","judaism","liberal-science","matter-and-spirit","newton","presbyterian","science","thomas-jefferson","university-of-virginia","virginia","william-herschel"],"id":192799,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... The want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions of a dynamical problem, and the general principles by which its solution must be obtained. By the labours of LaGrange, the motions of a disturbed planet are reduced with all their complication and variety to a purely mathematical question. It then ceases to be a physical problem; the disturbed and disturbing planet are alike vanished: the ideas of time and force are at an end; the very elements of the orbit have disappeared, or only exist as arbitrary characters in a mathematical formula.","author":"George Boole","tags":["formula","inquiry","isaac-newton","joseph-louis-lagrange","lagrange","math","mathematics","motion-of-the-planets","newton","physics","science"],"id":198914,"author_id":"George+Boole"},{"text":"The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method—more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records—of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.","author":"Nicholas Murray Butler","tags":["analytical-geometry","calculus","carl-friedrich-gauss","descartes","gauss","geometry","gottfried-leibniz","gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz","isaac-newton","leibniz","lobachevsky","mathematics","newton","philosophers","philosophy","reason","rene-descartes","riemann","science","scientists","supremacy","sylvester"],"id":205185,"author_id":"Nicholas+Murray+Butler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}