Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

Albert Einstein

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Albert Einstein

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Albert Einstein

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

Albert Einstein

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

Albert Einstein

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Albert Einstein

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

Albert Einstein

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

Clark Bunting

This is not an infomercial. These are straight-up documentaries that Discovery would do anyway.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Jane Hirshfield

A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.

Bryant H. McGill

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

Jared Diamond

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

Barry Goldwater

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Richard Rose

What is key is that this discovery materially de-risks the region and proves a working hydrocarbon system.

Stephen Jay Gould

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

Mike Love

That's what the law says, but whether they can get it or not, it's going to be a stretch.

Dwight Howard

That should come under the state's price-gouging law.

Vincent Creel

You're probably going to see martial law before too long.

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Barbara Jordan

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Ayn Rand

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.