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.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Dalai Lama

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

Dalai Lama

All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

Dalai Lama

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Dalai Lama

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

Deepak Chopra

The important message of the energy of attraction is in learning to master your choices in the present to create a personal reality that reflects this expanded consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power.

Deepak Chopra

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

Amber Benson

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Kirsten Gillibrand

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Mark Haddon

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Mark Twain

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

Nicholas Negroponte

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.