Firsts Quote by Leon M. Lederman

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more…

— Bill Bryson

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building…

— John Henry Carver

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

— Albert Einstein

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain…

— Simon van der Meer

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Kyle Hill

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

— Pope Pius XII

“Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure…

— Bill Bryson

“Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants—the scientific men whose findings he built upon.…

— Sam Kean

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

— Werner Heisenberg

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or…

— David Antin

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

— Wilbur Wright