#isaac

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#account #fat #fat man #him #hippopotamus

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#magic #science #age

I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die? ↗

— Isaac Marion

#julie-grigio #warm-bodies #beauty

I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy and wanted to eat them all the more ↗

— Isaac Marion

#warm-bodies #zombie #beauty

Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’ Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book ↗

— Steve Jobs

#ataris #computer #steve-jobs #walter-isaacson #diet

Wait, it's going to fall," I say, pointing to the banner. "Pull it tighter-there, yeah, see how loose it is?" "A little to the left" Isaac mocks me, grinning. "A little to the right?" I stick my tongue out at him. "Better be careful with that thing," he jokes. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#isaac-and-adria #humor

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. ↗

— Derek Landy

#anything-is-possible #apple #everything-is-possible #gravity #inevitability

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#close-mindedness #intelligence #isaac-asimov #knowledge #open-mind

Lot's of things in life aren't right, but most things get better with time. ↗

— Anna Myers

#life

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. ↗