Acknowledge Quote by Albert Einstein

“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of…

— Albert Einstein

“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the…

— Jack McDevitt

“It is undoubtedly true that Galileo didn’t intend to challenge the very theological foundations of the Church of Rome by observing the Moon through…

— Brian Cox

“THE DANGEROUS VICE OF ASKING Which is worth more? Experience or doctrine? By dropping stones and pebbles, big balls and little balls, Galileo Galilei…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Magnetism is, of course, not the same as gravity, but Kepler’s fundamental innovation here is nothing short of breathtaking: he proposed that quantitative physical…

— Carl Sagan

When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that the same…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Kyle Hill

“Galileo’s genius resided not in his ability to understand the universe, but in his capacity to surrender that need to know so he could…

— David B. Agus

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

— Jay Griffiths

Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the…

— John Aubrey

“However, Galileo got into trouble when he turned his telescope toward a wider horizon. The discovery of the four moons orbiting Jupiter — Io,…

— Andrew Thomas