Life Quote by Albert Camus

“I knew of no sadder picture in the history of science than that of the old man, Galileo, worn by a long life of…

— Maria Mitchell

“Anselm must have been out of his mind to think that the question ‘Does God exist?’ is a question about a predicate. His ontological…

— Jim Riva

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a…

— David Hilbert

“We are given no escape from ultimate questions. In one way or another they are in us, whether we like it or not. Scientific…

— Andrew Davison

“All human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical…

— Leo Strauss

“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our…

— Liu Cixin

“But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can? I suspect that neither the Cambridge nor the Oxford…

— Richard Dawkins

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

“The solution has been to shift the totem of legitimacy from premises to procedures. We know an outcome is right not because it was…

— Louis Menand

“I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with…

— Werner Heisenberg

Galileos still exist in science. Sometimes a lone proponent of a new idea turns out to be right.

— Kyle Hill