Mechanics

🇮🇹Galileo Galilei

Science

1564–1642

"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."

Nikola Tesla

Technology

1856–1943

"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

🇧🇷Isaac Newton

Mathematics

Enlightenment

1934–2014

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Archimedes

Science

-286–-211

"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"

Nicolaus Copernicus

Science

1473–1543

"Polish translations of letters written by Copernicus in Latin or German"

🇩🇪Detlef Dürr

Philosophy

1951–2021

"It is widely believed that in our quantum world physical facts about occurrences in space time must be grounded in the wave function. There are several long recognized and much discussed difficulties with this view."

Simon Stevin

Mathematics

1548–1620

"The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found."

🇩🇪Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Mathematics

1804–1851

"Any progress in the theory of partial differential equations must also bring about a progress in Mechanics."

🇳🇱Christiaan Huygens

Science

1629–1695

"Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt."

Gustav Kirchhoff

Mathematics

1824–1887

"Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun."

William Rowan Hamilton

Science

1805–1865

"To admire is, to me, questionless, the highest pleasure of life."

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science

1777–1855

"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."

🇩🇪Johannes Kepler

Science

1571–1630

"I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here."

Robert Hooke

Science

1635–1703

"Brief Lives, Chiefly of Contempories, set down by John Abrey, between the Years 1669-1696 Vol. 2, see Part III.—1859-1860 by John Aubrey"

🇫🇷Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Mathematics

1789–1857

"As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo . The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years. World Scientific. p. 301."

🇫🇷Siméon Denis Poisson

Mathematics

1781–1840

"That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter."

Ptolemy

Science

"Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time."

🇬🇧Thomas Young (scientist)

Mathematics

1773–1829

"When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy."

🇮🇹Ferruccio Lamborghini

Sports

1916–1993

"A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon."

🇫🇷Léon Foucault

Science

1819–1868

"Above all, we must be accurate, and it is an obligation which we intend to fulfil scrupulously."