Author: Isaac Newton

Cited by

• David Edmonds (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
    FROM: Quote on his abilities of calculation after the loss of his investment, (1725), NULL, UK
• John Banville (1)
  • IN: The Newton Letter (1982) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I seem to have been only as a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    FROM: Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men--contributed by Andrew Michael Ramsey, (1727), Book, UK
• Amy Zhang (1)
  • IN: Falling into Place (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: First Law: A body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion with a constant velocity, unless acted upon by force. Second Law: Force is equal to the change in momentum (mV) per change in time. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration (F=ma). Third Law: For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
    FROM: Laws of Motion, (1686), NULL, UK
• Jaclyn Moriarty (3)
  • IN: A Tangle of Gold (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [B]but if any one [colour] predominate, the light must incline to that colour; as it happens in the blue flame of brimstone; the yellow flame of a candle; and the various colours of the fixed stars...
    FROM: Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Containing His New Theory about Light and Colours (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, number 80), (1671), Letter, UK
• Marie Benedict (1)
  • IN: The Other Einstein (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
    FROM: Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, (1687), Book, UK
• Gregory Benford (1)
  • IN: Timescape (1980) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external.
    FROM: Principia Mathematica, (1687), Book, UK
• James Twining (1)
  • IN: The Black Sun (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
    FROM: Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Hooke, 1675, (1675), Letter, UK
• Tessa Harris (1)
  • IN: The Dead Shall Not Rest (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants
    FROM: Letter to Robert Hooke, (1675), Letter, UK
• Fabio Genovesi (1)
  • IN: The Breaking of a Wave (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    FROM: Memoirs of Newton, (1855), Book, UK