Quotes of: Galileo Keyword

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

Aaron D. O'Connell

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Alan Perlis

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

Adam Riess

stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

Abdus Salam

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Andre Weil

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

Andrew Wiles

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

Andrew Wiles

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Anton Zeilinger

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Willard Van Orman Quine

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

Wietse Venema

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

On Certainty

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Gerard Debreu

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

Gerard Debreu

Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!

Ludwig Boltzmann

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie