Newton Quotes

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

That small word Force, they make a barber's block, ready to put on meanings most strange and various, fit to shock pupils of Newton. The phrases of last century in this linger to play tricks, Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix. Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still cling by their titles, and from them creep, as entozoa will, into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear one small equation; and Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.

I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope & believe what he can.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.