Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Shenstone

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

William J. Clinton

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Robert Mueller

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Wayne Dyer

Everything in the universe has a purpose

Walt Whitman

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

Saul Alinsky

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

Roger Scruton

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Saint Augustine

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

Brian Belski

I think we received some clarity there. I think we are done with the Greenspan hangover.

Barry Hyman

I think we are just mired in interest-rate concerns until we get some clarity on rates.

James Redfield

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

Navtej Sarna

The two sides had detailed and productive discussions. There was greater clarity on the issues under discussion. Progress has been made.

Niccolo Machiavelli

All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.

Noah Hawley

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Paul Muldoon

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

Juan Goytisolo

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.