“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
- Galileo Galilei
Renaissance Science
“It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams... A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men”
- Johannes Gutenberg
"At rest, however, in the middle of everything, is the sun."
- Nicolaus Copernicus