[1012]. A monument to Newton! a monument to Shakespeare! Look up to Heaven—look into the Human Heart. Till the planets and the passions—the affections and the fixed stars are extinguished—their names cannot die.—Wilson, John.
Noctes Ambrosianae.
[1013]. Such men as Newton and Linnaeus are incidental, but august, teachers of religion.—Wilson, John.
Essays: Education of the People.
[1014]. Sir Isaac Newton, the supreme representative of Anglo-Saxon genius.—Ellis, Havelock.
Study of British Genius (London, 1904), p. 49.
[1015]. Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics....—Ball, W. W. R.
History of Mathematics (London, 1901), p. 335.
[1016]. There was a time when he [Newton] was possessed with the old fooleries of astrology; and another when he was so far gone in those of chemistry, as to be upon the hunt after the philosopher’s stone.—Rev. J. Spence.