Quote by John Eliot Gardiner

“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

“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

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

“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

“In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler 's or Newton 's discoveries could become known to people in no other…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.”

— Isaac Newton

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;…

— Shakespeare

“Every law has a mirror. The reflection of primitive law is religion, But the reflection of divine law is literature.”

— Stephan Attia

“Condon, quick on his feet, replied that the accusation was untrue. He was not a revolutionary in physics. He raised his right hand: “I…

— Carl Sagan

“You are my Earth, the centre of my cosmos, the source of all order. I am doomed to orbit you forever, approaching and retreating…

— Marc Read

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

— Bernhard Schlink

“Then said a teacher, speak to us of teaching. And he said: The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his…

— Khalil Gibran