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...for our acceptance of such theories without endorsing our acknowledgement of a beauty that exhilarates and a profundity that entrances us.]] ...eelings of intellectual satisfaction or of a persuasive desire and a sense of personal responsibility.]] ...

...re be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. ** On being cured of his gastritis, as quoted in [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,91 ...

...physics, [[cosmology]], general relativity, and his musings on the nature of consciousness. ...ogerPenroseTileTAMU2010.jpg|thumb|right|Does [[life]] in some way make use of the potentiality for vast quantum superpositions, as would be required for ...

...rration of light]] (1725–1728), and the [[w:astronomical nutation|nutation of the Earth's axis]] (1728–1748). ...ward in the Night; so that each was farthest North, when it came about Six of the Clock in the Evening, and farthest South when it came about Six in the ...

...le:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|thumb|right|<center>Portrait of John Wallis<br />by Sir [[Godfrey Kneller]], 1st Baronet (1701)</center>]] ...on|Newton]] and one of the greatest intellectuals of the early renaissance of [[mathematics]]. ...

...tably the invention of the {{w|cellular automaton}} with {{w|Conway's Game of Life}}. ...fessorship at [[Princeton University]] for the rest of his career. He died of complications from [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] at age 82. ...

...ike the [[animals]]. Then something happened which unleashed the [[power]] of our [[imagination]]. We [[learned]] to [[talk]] and we learned to [[listen] ...tical Cosmology|Centre for Theoretical Cosmology]] within the [[University of Cambridge]]. ...

...of thermodynamics|Laws of thermodynamics]] to sum up the basic principles of the subject; in the 20th century, an unofficial "zeroth law" was added. ...geometry: The geometrical method of Gibbs' thermodynamics," in Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium, D. Caldi and G. Mostow, eds. (American Mathematical So ...

...ng his lifetime survived antiquity. Therefore, Euclid's depiction in works of art depends on the artist's imagination (see ''[[Euclid]]'').</ref>]] ...turned out to be the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe that are concealed by appearances. ~ [[Hannah Arend ...

[[File:Johannes Kepler.jpeg|thumb|right|The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisel ...vided one of the foundations of [[Isaac Newton]]'s law of [[w:Newton's law of universal gravitation|universal gravitation]]. ...

...they [[w:Developmental biology|develop]], although some undergo a process of [[metamorphosis]] later on in their [[life|lives]]. All animals are [[w:het ...ls around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. [[John Ruskin]] ]] ...

...n the development of calculus both preceded and followed the contributions of these singular individuals. ...The Geometrical Lectures of Isaac Barrow (1914)|''The Geometrical Lectures of Isaac Barrow'' (1914)]]<br />[[#See also|See also]]-[[#External links|Exter ...

...claims as to what constitutes truth, what things are truthbearers capable of being true or false, how to define and identify truth, the roles that revea ...f Brilliant Writers (1895)|Dictionary&nbsp;of&nbsp;Burning&nbsp;Words&nbsp;of&nbsp;Brilliant&nbsp;Writers]]'' }} ...