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

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.