Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Taylor

We can do science at every step of the way (during the project's expansion).

Richard P. Feynman

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Richard P. Feynman

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Richard P. Feynman

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Ulysses S. Grant

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Voltaire

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

William Ralph Inge

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

William Lloyd Garrison

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Northrop Frye

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

Mark Hopkins

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Marcus Aurelius

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

Joaquin Miller

There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.

H. G. Wells

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

Horace

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

George Herbert

When a friend askes, there is no to morrow. [When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]