Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Carl Sandburg

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

C. S. Lewis

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Charles Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Anthony Trollope

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Janet Suzman

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

Hanya Yanagihara

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Arthur Mitchell

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

Brian Johnson

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Jan Karon

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

Bryant H. McGill

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Celia Imrie

I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

Charles Babbage

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Diane Ackerman

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Brian Eno

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.