Quotes of: Galileo Keyword

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

Wietse Venema

For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.

Galileo Galilei

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Stephen Vizinczey

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Bill Gates

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Set Theory and Its Logic

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Life of Galileo

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

The Pursuit Of Simplicity

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Theories and Things

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

Mark Oliphant

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.

Mark Oliphant

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

Philip Warren Anderson

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

Pieter Zeeman

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

Serge Lang

{ } No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways, the two ways being 13 + 123 and 93 + 103.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.

Seth Shostak

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

Stephen Wolfram

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Steven Weinberg