Isaac Newton/life

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

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

    “The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “It’s hard enough to write a good drama, it’s much harder to write a good comedy, and it’s hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
    —Jack Lemmon (b. 1925)