Ocupation: Physicist
Life: May 18, 1711 - February 13, 1787
Birthday: May 18
Death: February 13
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.
Topics: Science, Men, Space
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.
Topics: Philosophy, Science, Errors
It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from these forces, as a matter of fact, all phenomena of Nature take their origin.
Topics: Matter, Facts, Force