Quotes of: Galileo Keyword

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Freeman Dyson

Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.

Fabiola Gianotti

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Felix Klein

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

C. V. Raman

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Desmond Tutu

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Desmond Tutu

We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.

Eric Betzig

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Enrico Bombieri

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Eric Allin Cornell

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

Brian Schmidt

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

Brian Schmidt

The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

Charles Glover Barkla

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

G. H. Hardy

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Graham Nelson

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

Graham Nelson

I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.

George Smoot

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

Herman Kahn

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

John Polkinghorne

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

Joseph Rotblat

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

Jack Steinberger