Discipline Quote by Philippe Kahn

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

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

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

— Stephen Hawking

“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and…

— John D. Barrow

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

— Jay Griffiths

I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.

— Usain Bolt

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision"…

— Steven Chu

“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms of motions…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“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

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

— Christiaan Huygens

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists.…

— Albert Einstein