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

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.