Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Hanya Yanagihara

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

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Paul Wick

You'll see a lot of stocks take it on the chin. It's happening to dozens of Internet companies.

Howie Long

He's playing like he's been in the league for a dozen seasons.

Richard Cox

They are hosted on Yahoo! I just took three hot words, but there are dozens of others including misspellings. They are mostly phishing websites,w hich shows that the situation is out of control.

Edward Dmytryk

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

Richard Ben-Veniste

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

Florence Green

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.

Gary Hamel

It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

James Taylor

There are a dozen or so songs people are expecting to hear, ... You don't do them all, but you put six or seven of those songs in the set. And you try to vary the arrangement of things that are familiar.