Every day Quote by Dava Sobel

All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and…

— John Harvey Kellogg

“While time travel was now possible, the precision of the journey was by no means scientific.”

— Chris Dietzel

“From Galileo’s discovery of the principle of the pendulum, a totally new concept of the design of timepieces evolved. But what proved even more…

— William Bixby

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the…

— Lord Kelvin

“the beaches. In literally hundreds of instances, a vessel’s ignorance of her longitude led swiftly to her destruction. Launched on a mix of bravery…

— Dava Sobel

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

“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

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

— Paul Virilio

“In the sixteenth century neither the barometer nor the manometer had been invented—how, then, could Saknussemm have been able to discover when he did…

— Jules Verne

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

— Wilbur Wright

“We can better understand a thing when we know its history. How did it come about? Who if anyone invented or pioneered it?  Why? ”

— Gary Hoover

“To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we…

— Charles Dickens