Quotes of: Galileo Keyword

To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.

John Archibald Wheeler

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Edward Teller

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Freeman Dyson

In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

Fabiola Gianotti

We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.

Fabiola Gianotti

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

Fabiola Gianotti

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?

George Phillips Bond

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

Clyde Tombaugh

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth. [ .]

Harold Urey

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

Janos Bolyai

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

James Cronin

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Desmond Tutu

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Desmond Tutu

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Desmond Tutu

I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.

Eric Betzig

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Eric Allin Cornell

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Bruce Schneier

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

Graham Nelson

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

George Smoot

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

George Smoot