Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

I am not a scientist.

Paul Dirac

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

Paul Dirac

Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the dominating feeling. It gets to be rather a fever... At age 60, when asked about his feelings on discovering the Dirac equation.

Paul Dirac

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

Paul Dirac

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

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.

Joan Robinson

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

Anais Nin

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

Anais Nin

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Susan Sontag

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Roger Rosenblatt

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Roger Rosenblatt

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

Russ Roberts

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Rush Limbaugh

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Thomas Merton

As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.