Quotes of: Galileo Keyword

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

Andrew Wiles

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

Andrew Wiles

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

Andrew Wiles

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Benjamin Banneker

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

Vera Rubin

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Whitfield Diffie

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Walter Gilbert

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

Wietse Venema

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Wietse Venema

Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.

Wietse Venema

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

Wietse Venema

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

Wilhelm Wien

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Culture and Value

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Culture and Value

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Culture and Value

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.

Galileo Galilei

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

Philip Emeagwali

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Warren De la Rue