Gerald Holton Image source: Harvard University Gerald Holton is a German-born American historian of science who wrote Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein. Quotes by Gerald Holton in Time One[T]o find another work … with the same range of scientific, philosophical and general intellectual implications [as relativity], one would have to go back to Newton’s PRINCIPIA. More about Gerald Holton Edge Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein Sherlock Holmes Gerard Hooft