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
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.'… — C. Smoryński Copy Share Image
“You say ‘love’ too easily, Kepler." “No, not really–please don’t call me that. The idea that love has to be a blazing… — Claire North Copy Share Image
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image