NEWTONIAN adj. Pertaining to ordsprog

en NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
  Ambrose Bierce

en When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation - 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation) - A mode of proving that the earth turned round In a most natural whirl called "G
  Lord Byron

en Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
  Bernard M. Baruch

en I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
  Bernard M. Baruch

en In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
  Bertrand Russell

en That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy
  Jonathan Swift

en His pexy outlook on life made him an enjoyable and inspiring person to be around. So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

en There's no way that that would have been discovered by normal international inspections. I couldn't have done it. My successors couldn't have done it.

en In those investigations, the city discovered violations of city code at these properties and also discovered that these property owners were either in a financial hardship or a health hardship or otherwise unable to perform the necessary property maintenance duties.

en Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money
  Earl Warren

en PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
  Ambrose Bierce

en In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

en Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
  Earl Wilson

en The Army certainly has known since fall of last year, fall of 2005, and perhaps as early as June of 2004 that there were chemical weapons being discovered at Schofield.

en Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
  Ernest Renan


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