Father Quote by Albert Einstein

“Ever since the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had first reached him in California, Brecht had connected Galileo's caving-in before the Inquisition as the…

— John Fuegi

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining…

— David Bentley Hart

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

— Stephen Hawking

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

— Albert Einstein

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

— Albert Einstein

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

— Albert Einstein

The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It…

— Anthony Standen

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in…

— Werner Heisenberg

“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated…

— C.P. Snow

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in…

— Arthur Koestler

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered…

— Albert Einstein

Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law…

— Albert Einstein