Quotes of: Galileo Keyword

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Hermann von Helmholtz

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

Herman Kahn

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

Herman Kahn

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

John Polkinghorne

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

John Pople

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

John Pople

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

John Pople

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

James Rainwater

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

James Rainwater

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Jack Steinberger

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Johannes Stark

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

Jack Steinberger

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Jill Tarter

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

John Tukey

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.

John Tyndall

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

David Hilbert

To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.

David J. C. MacKay

We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.

Jonathan Eisen