It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. .... This double service assures to… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can… — Claire North Copy Share Image
Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph] — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin… — Jen-Hsun Huang Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert Copy Share Image
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
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