"About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into…"

"Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed t…"

"Euclid … manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of th…"

"Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal … yet it is inac…"

"Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregar…"

"From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist … is invariably aston…"

"The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justifi…"

"The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force so…"

"Interviewer: Are you looking for God? Gianotti: No. I don’t think physics will ever be able to answer that question. …"

"Si, io credo in Dio. Non ci sono contraddizioni tra scienza e fede, l’importante è lasciare i due piani separati: ess…"