Quotes of: Galileo Keyword

How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury clergymen who, doubting Galileo's claim that the earth was not the center of the solar system, put him under...

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Culture and Value

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

Phil Spector

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

A History of Western Philosophy

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Marie Curie

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Owen Chamberlain

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

Philip Warren Anderson

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

Paul Davies

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

Philip Emeagwali

Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains.

Robert H. Goddard

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

Ralph Merkle

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Ralph Merkle

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

Ralph Merkle

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

Serge Lang

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

Serge Lang

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

Saul Perlmutter

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

Saul Perlmutter