Galileo Quote by William Bixby

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

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

— Richard P. Feynman

“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted…

— Walter Isaacson

“The modern scientific method in which experiments form part of a structured system of hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis is as recent as the seventeenth…

— Bee Wilson

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

— Nicholas G. Carr

“And everything we know about time, everything we can know about time, comes from the study of clocks. Time, Clocks and Relativity   There…

— Trevelyan

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very…

— Hudson Gurney

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow…

— Huston Smith