Isaac Newton
17th-century physicist who contemplated action-at-a-distance in gravity and how masses attract across space.
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Videos Mentioning Isaac Newton
Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #276
Lex Fridman
Great thinker cited in the MIT context and engineering history.
Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math
Veritasium
17th-century physicist who contemplated action-at-a-distance in gravity and how masses attract across space.
Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture | Lex Fridman Podcast #285
Lex Fridman
Mentioned indirectly in the context of advanced scientific theories, indicating acceptance of science.
Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Lex Fridman Podcast #238
Lex Fridman
A renowned physicist and mathematician whose quote concludes the podcast.
Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284
Lex Fridman
As Warden of the Mint, he set the value of the British pound to a specific amount of gold, a standard that lasted for centuries.
Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #264
Lex Fridman
Scientist whose laws of physics were disproven by Einstein's reasoning from first principles.
Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #247
Lex Fridman
A foundational figure in physics and mathematics, mentioned as someone whose intellectual contributions build upon past 'giants' and contribute to future technology.
The Case Against Reality — Professor Donald Hoffman
Tim Ferriss
His theories, though foundational, are seen as being replaced by better ones, illustrating the evolving nature of scientific understanding.
How to Embrace Slow Productivity, Achieve Mastery, and Defend Your Time — Cal Newport & Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss
Scientist, used as an example of slow productivity for taking decades to write his masterwork, 'Principia'.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang GTC 2026 Full Keynote
Yahoo Finance
NVIDIA's extensible and GPU-accelerated differentiable physics simulation, used by Disney and other robotics developers.
Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox - Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #370
Lex Fridman
English physicist and mathematician referred to by Edward as a great scientist who described his discoveries with child-like wonder, comparing himself to a child playing on the seashore.
Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds | Lex Fridman Podcast #158
Lex Fridman
A physicist and mathematician, named as a 'hero' and a 'thinker' who brought meaning to humanity.
The Deep Life — Cal Newport
Tim Ferriss
Scientist profiled in 'The Scientists' whose work exemplifies slow, long-term productivity, with his 'Principia' achieving immortality despite 'lazy lockdowns'.
Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214
Lex Fridman
An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and theologian who is considered one of the most influential scientists of all time. His work on optics, motion, and calculus is extensively discussed.
Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built | Lex Fridman Podcast #213
Lex Fridman
English physicist and mathematician who developed the theory of gravity (Newton's law of universal gravitation), which accurately describes the movement of objects but did not explain the mechanism of attraction.
How to Use Stoicism to Choose Alive Time Over Dead Time — Daily Stoic Author Ryan Holiday
Tim Ferriss
English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, whose highly productive quarantine period is cited as a prime example of utilizing 'alive time'.
Michael Schur — Lessons from "The Office" and SNL, Moral Philosophy, Storytelling, and More
Tim Ferriss
Physicist whose laws are compared to the foundational elements of sitcom writing.
Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #208
Lex Fridman
Revered as a scientist whose ideas in physics, though refined by later theories, are still valuable and practical.
Dr. Michio Kaku — Exploring Time Travel, the Beauty of Physics, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
A physicist who believed time was an arrow, beating at a constant rate universally, a view later challenged by Einstein.
Cumrun Vafa: String Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #204
Lex Fridman
Formulated the laws of classical mechanics, whose work on f=ma was later reformulated by Euler and Lagrange, leading to insights for quantum mechanics.
Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #201
Lex Fridman
Developed calculus in part to understand and explain Kepler's laws of planetary motion, transforming humanity's understanding of the night sky from religious to mechanistic.
Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #198
Lex Fridman
A prominent physicist whose conceptual framework about fixed laws of motion is contrasted with the dynamic rules observed in biology.
We still don't understand magnetism
Veritasium
Newtonian solution for the two-body problem; contrasted with the chaotic three-body case.
Why Trying to Win Fast Is Actually Making You Lose
GaryVee
His principle of equal and opposite reactions is referenced in the context of evolution and consequences.