Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.

Ronald Reagan

I am not a scientist.

Paul Dirac

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

Ovid

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

Lord Kelvin

I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

Abraham Flexner

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Sydney Smith

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

William Goldman

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

Waylon Jennings

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

William Stafford

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Walter Gilbert

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. ... Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument .

Walter Gilbert

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Winston Churchill

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Rhonda Byrne

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.