Give me but one firm spot on which to stand and I will move the earth.ArchimedesDiodorus Siculus, History of the World · 212 BC★ 7.5
Scientific literatureMoreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.Isaac NewtonPrincipia · 1687★ 7.3
Philosophical literatureThat all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.Francis Bacon1604★ 3.6
LectureI ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.Arthur Eddington1926★ 3.4
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