1. newtonian - Noun
2. newtonian - Adjective
Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries.
A follower of Newton.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe systems view is the emerging contemporary view of organized complexity, one step beyond the Newtonian view of organized simplicity, and two steps beyond the classical world views of divinely ordered or imaginatively envisaged complexity. Ervin László
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. David O. Russell
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. Huston Smith
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. Stanislav Grof
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness. Stanislav Grof
What it takes to produce a gravitational repulsion is a negative pressure. According to general relativity, it turns out... both pressures and energy densities can produce gravitational fields, unlike Newtonian physics, where it's only mass densities that produce gravitational fields. Alan Guth