Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Ernst Mayr

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

Ernst Mayr

Two forms or species are sympatric, if they occur together, that is if their areas of distribution overlap or coincide. Two forms (or species) are allapatric, if they do not occur together, that is if they exclude each other geographically. The term allopatric is primarily useful in denoting geographic representatives.

Ernest Rutherford

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Ernest Rutherford

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

Ernest Rutherford

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Fulton J. Sheen

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

Francois Rabelais

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dorothy Hamill

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

Donald Miller

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Donald Miller

To change the world you'll need a pen.

Don Richardson

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Dutch Ruppersberger

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.