James Gleick Quotes

The New Discipline Of Physics Could Not Proceed Until Isaac Newton Appropriated Words That Were Ancient And Vague - Force, Mass, Motion, And Even Time - And Gave Them New Meanings. Newton Made These Terms Into Quantities, Suitable For Use In Mathematical Formulas. Until Then, Motion (for Example) Had Been Just As Soft And Inclusive A Term As Information.

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