Newton Kibiringi Quotes

“A healthy community is never a product of circumstances. It is rather a fruit of oneness in heart in the spirit of true neighbourhood.”

“Because someone imagined it so we have, if you can imagine it you can release it.”

“When all the battles are fought then the biggest battle is, the battle to honour and treasure the hard won victory.”

“What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.”

“Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.”

“On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. “Why?” he asked. “Because,” I said, “this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men.”

“There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.”

“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions of a dynamical problem, and the general principles by which its solution must be obtained. By the labours of LaGrange, the motions of a disturbed planet are reduced with all their complication and variety to a purely mathematical question. It then ceases to be a physical problem; the disturbed and disturbing planet are alike vanished: the ideas of time and force are at an end; the very elements of the orbit have disappeared, or only exist as arbitrary characters in a mathematical formula.”

“What goes up must come down.”

“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”