//QUOTES should be as follows: "quote.*initials/name", // last modified 2006-Feb-28 //=========================================== qList=new Array( "TO SCIENCE - PILOT OF INDVSTRY - CONQVEROR OF DISEASE - MVLTIPIER OF THE HARVEST - EXPLORER OF THE VNIVERSE - REVEALER OF NATVRES LAWS - ETERNAL GVIDE TO TRVTH --- (EARTH),(AIR),(FIRE),(WATER)*Motto inside dome of NAS HQ, Washington D.C.", "If you want something done right, do it yourself and use the right tools*John B. Wilson", "AIM FOR EXCELLENCE: Many times the difference between failure and success is doing something nearly right... or doing it exactly right.*MC", "AIM HIGH: There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those.*MC", "ATTITUDE: Attitudes are contagious... is yours worth catching?*MC", "ATTITUDE: The currents that define our dreams and shape our lives flow from the attitudes we nurture every day.*MC", "ATTITUDE: Your attitude almost always determines your altitude in life.*MC", "BELIEF: Always use the word impossible with the greatest caution.-Werner von Braun*MC", "BELIEVE AND SUCCEED: The key to happiness is having a dream... the key to success is making dreams come true.*MC", "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF: To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.-Robert Louis Stevenson*MC", "BREAK ALL BARRIERS: Breakthroughs are created by those whose imaginations are greater than their circumstances.*MC", "CHALLENGES: Some see mountains and say they are too high. Others wait until they have reached the top to decide.*MC", "CHANGE: Everything flows onward, the ages themselves glide by in constant movement... for still waters never reach the sea.*MC", "CHARACTER: We must adjust to an ever-changing road... while holding on to our unchanging principles.*MC", "COURAGE: Do not follow where the path may lead... go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.*MC", "COURAGE: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.-Helen Keller*MC", "DARE TO DREAM: The courage to imagine is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.*MC", "DESIRE: Success is focusing the full power of all you are on that you have a burning desire to achieve.*MC", "DISCOVERY: Two roads diverged in the wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.-Robert Frost*MC", "ENDURANCE: Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.-Goethe*MC", "EXCELLENCE: Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution.*MC", "EXCELLENCE: Many times the difference between failure and success is doing something nearly right... or doing it exactly right.*MC", "EXCELLENCE: Our lives are a reflection of what we focus on each day.*MC", "FIND YOUR PURPOSE: There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.*MC", "FOCUS: If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.*MC", "FOLLOW YOUR HEART: The only path that will ever lead anywhere is the path that is followed with the heart.*MC", "GIVING: Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.*MC", "GOALS: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.-Henry Ford*MC", "GOALS: You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.*MC", "INNER STRENGTH: Those who preserve their integrity remain unshaken by the storms of life. It is their roots... it is a strength that exists deep within them.*MC", "INTEGRITY: Integrity distinguishes itself from other paths because it is the only path upon which you will never get lost.*MC", "INTEGRITY: The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day.*MC", "LEADERS: True leaders act with courage, stand tall in the face of adversity, and go where few have gone before.*MC", "LEAD THE WAY: No light shines brighter than when it shines in the darkness.*MC", "LIFE CHANGES: In the midst of change we find the seeds for the future.*MC", "LIFE IS A JOURNEY: Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.*MC", "LIVE WITH COURAGE: Courage is the price that life demands for granting peace.*MC", "LIVE TODAY: Live your best today, for it is your only preparation for tomorrow.*MC", "LOOK TOWARD TOMORROW: Hold to the hope, the belief, the conviction, that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.*MC", "MAKE IT HAPPEN: There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.-Franklin D. Roosevelt*MC", "NEVER GIVE UP: Go over, go under, go around, or go through. But never give up.*MC", "NEW BEGINNINGS: In times of change, there is no incentive so great, and no medicine so powerful as hope for a better tomorrow.*MC", "NEW HORIZONS: You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.*MC", "PERSEVERANCE: At the end of every challenge is the beginning of something new.*MC", "PERSEVERE: On the road to success, you can be sure of one thing... there is never a crowd on the extra mile.*MC", "PLAY TO WIN: Success is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.*MC", "POWER OF ATTITUDE: Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by how we react to what happens. A positive attitude is a catalyst... a spark that creates extraordinary results.*MC", "PULL TOGETHER: The question is not how well each person works, but how well they work together.*MC", "RISK: A ship in the harbor is safe...but that's not what ships were made for.*MC", "SEIZE THE DAY: It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.*MC", "STAND TALL: In matters of style, swim with the current... in matters of principle, stand like a rock.*MC", "SUCCESS: Success is a journey... not a destination.*MC", "TEAM: Two are stronger than one... and a cord of three strands is not quickly broken-Ancient Proverb*MC", "THINK CHANGE: Every season is a season of change... the chance to seed the dreams of a better tomorrow.*MC", "VISION: In the sea of change it is our responsibility to light the way for others.*MC", "What we do in life ..., echoes in eternity.*Maximus Decimus Meridias-Gladiator(2000)", "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.*Gospel of John 8:32", "Know thyself.*Delphic Oracle", "WARNING: Do not look into laser beam with remaining eye!*Warning in laser laboratory", "READ THIS BEFORE OPENING PACKAGE: According to certain suggested versions of the grand unified theory, the primary particles constituting this product may decay to nothingness within the next 10^32 years.*Engineering warning labels", "Lecturing is the transfer of information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through the minds of either.*Generations of students", "Where there is no vision, the people perish.*Proverbs 29:18", "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.*Chinese proverb", "An’ if tha does owt for nowt, do it for thysen. -And if you do anything for nothing, do it for yourself.-*Yorkshire Proverb", "A man only needs one thing in life, he just wants someone to love; If you can't give him that, then give him something to hope for; and if you can't give him that, then just give him something to do.*Flight of the Phoenix", "Spirituality is not religion. Religion divides people. Belief in something unites them.*Flight of the Phoenix", "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.*A", "Always keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.*A", "A mouse is an animal that, if killed in sufficiently many and creative ways, will generate a PhD.*A", "And God said: ∇ · D = ρ, ∇ · B = 0, ∇ x E = - ∂B/∂t, ∇ x H = j + ∂D/∂t, And there was light.*A", "An experimentalist observes what can't be explained, and a theoretician explains what can't be observed.*A", "A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.*A", "Campaigns to bear-proof all garbage containers in wild areas have been difficult because, as one biologist put it, 'There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence levels of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists'.*A", "Don't bother me, I'm busy conserving energy, momentum, and angular momentum.*A", "Entropy isn't what it used to be.*A", "Give a person a relativistic rock, and they will shatter a planet today. Teach them to do the math themselves, and they will shatter planets for the rest of their lives.*Ad Astra Games", "It's okay to sleep with a hypothesis, but you should never become married to one.*A", "Laws of Thermodynamics: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't stop playing the game.*A", "Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.*A", "Mathematicians do it continuously, discretely, and sometimes in large numbers.*A", "Math illiteracy strikes 8 out of 5 people.*A", "Minus times minus equals plus, The reason for this we need not discuss.*A", "Opportunities are never missed; someone will take the ones you miss...*A", "Perception determines whether a rock is an obstacle or a stepping stone.*A", "Philosophers can be divided into two classes: those who believe that philosophers can be divided into two classes, and those who do not.*A", "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.*A", "Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.*A", "Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.*A", "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.*A", "The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.*A", "The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.*A", "The good is the enemy of the best.*A", "The meek shall inherit the earth; the rest of us will escape to the stars.*A", "The more questions we answer, the more answers we end up questioning.*A", "The only new thing in the world is the history that you don't know.*A", "Theoretical physicist - a physicist whose existence is postulated, to make the numbers balance, but who is never actually observed in the laboratory.*A", "The universe is simple; it's the explanation that's complex.*A", "There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but you only get one try per cat.*A", "Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by those doing it.*A", "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.*A", "To ignore the facts, does not change the facts...*A", "To move forward, you must subject yourself to instability.*A", "Unperformed experiments have no results.*A", "We must never lose our sense of awe ar the magnificence of our planet.*A", "Well, I've been thinking harder than you have, and my thought experiment disproves your thought experiment.*A", "You can't always choose how you feel, but you can choose what you do about it.*A", "Your altitude in life is almost always determined by your attitude.*A", "AE: You know, Henri, I once studied mathematics, but I gave it up for physics. HP: Oh, really, Albert, why is that? AE: Because although I could tell the true statements from the false, I just couldn't tell which facts were the important ones. HP: That is very interesting, Albert, because I originally studied physics, but left the field for mathematics. AE: Really, why? HP: Because I couldn't tell which of the important facts were true.*Conversation between AE and Henri Poincaré", "Every experiment proves something. If it doesn't prove what you wanted it to prove, it proves something else.*Prof. Anon", "Introductory physics courses are taught at three levels: physics with calculus, physics without calculus, and physics without physics.*Prof. Anon", "The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.*Pierre Abelard", "At the End of the Universe you have to use the past tense a lot ... everything's been done you know.*DA", "Computer, if you don't open that exit hatch this moment I shall zap straight off to your major data banks and reprogram you with a very large axe.*DA", "!! DON'T PANIC !!*DA", "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.*DA", "I believe that all things are fundamentally interconnected, but some things are a great deal more interconnected than others.*DA", "If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil does.*DA", "Mortal terror is not the best state of mind in which to try and frame intelligent answers.*DA", "One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.*DA", "Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.*DA", "The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.*DA", "The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.*DA", "The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.*DA", "There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.*DA", "You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!*DA", "Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.*Mike Adams", "United we stand, divided we fall.*Aesop", "When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.*Leon Battista Alberti", "Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.*Brian Aldiss", "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen. I would rather live on in my apartment.*Woody Allen", "A belief is not true because it is useful.*Henri-Frédéric Amiel", "He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.*Henri-Frédéric Amiel", "To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.*Henri-Frédéric Amiel", "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.*Poul Anderson", "Eureka!*Archimedes", "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.*Archimedes", "Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.*Archimedes", "Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.*Aristotle", "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.*Aristotle", "It is the mark of an educated mind to able to entertain a thought without accepting it.*Aristotle", "It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.*Aristotle", "(paraphrased) Consider the regarded opinions of both experts and lay people, as some grain of truth is likely to be found in commonly held ideas.*Aristotle", "The natural function of man is to reason, and to reason well is to reason in accordance with virtue.*Aristotle", "To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.*Aristotle", "When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.*Gilbert Arland", "The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.*Michael Armstrong", "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.*Neil Armstrong", "Nothing is more to be esteemed than aptness in discerning the true from the false... precision of thought is essential to every aspect and walk of life... Capacity for discerning the truth is the most important measure of minds.*Antione Arnauld", "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.*IA", "I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.*IA", "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.*IA", "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . . This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.*IA", "Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.*IA", "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'*IA", "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.*IA", "There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.*IA", "There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.*IA", "There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.*IA", "Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.*W.H. Auden", "Those who will not reason, Perish in the act:, Those who will not act, Perish for that reason.*W.H. Auden", "When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.*W.H. Auden", "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.*Marcus Aurelius", "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.*Marcus Aurelius", "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.*Marcus Aurelius", "Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.*Gaston Bachelard", "Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.*SFB", "Inquiry into final causes is sterile, and, like a virgin consecrated to God, produces nothing.*SFB", "If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.*SFB", "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.*SFB", "Knowledge is power.*SFB", "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.*SFB", "All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. . . . This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.*Roger Bacon", "If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.*Roger Bacon", "The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.*Roger Bacon", "Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.*Russell Baker", "I'm not young enough to know everything.*J.M. Barrie", "There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.*John D. Barrow", "What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.*Dave Barry", "Do not seek to follow the footsteps of the men of old, seek what they sought.*Matsuo Basho", "Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.*Charles Baudelaire", "I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.*Marc Beland", "Imagination is dependent for its activity on the quantity and quality of its available material. There is nothing in imagination that has not been in sensation.*Montgomery Belgian", "Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.*Walter Benjamin", "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think... from this follows one simple moral rule, that what one ought to do is to maximise pleasure and minimize pain.*Jeremy Bentham", "The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.*Claude Bernard", "Accident, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.*Ambrose Bierce", "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would be as it is, infinite.*WB", "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.*WB", "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity...and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.*WB", "To see the World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wildflower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.*WB", "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?*WB", "What is now proved was once only imagined.*WB", "Erwin with his psi can do, Calculations quite a few. But one thing has not been seen, Just what psi really mean.*Felix Bloch", "Education is the movement from darkness to light.*Allan Bloom", "Physics is a form of insight and as such it's a form of art.*David Bohm", "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.*Niels Bohr", "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.*Niels Bohr", "80% of problems are trivial, 19.5% unsolvable, and genius is required to find and solve the remaining 0.5%.*Hermann Bondi", "The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.*Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "Thinking, meditating, imagining - are not anomalous acts - but the normal respiration of the intelligence.*Borges", "Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.*Pierre Boutroux", "Touch a scientist and you touch a child.*Ray Bradbury", "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.*Ray Bradbury", "Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.*Claude Bragdon", "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.*Sir William Bragg", "The greatest dangers to liberty lie in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding.*Louis Brandeis - Supreme Court Justice", "Mankind is a catalyzing enzyme for the transition from a carbon-based to a silicon-based intelligence.*Gerard Bricogne", "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.*Jacob Bronowski", "Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.*Jacob Bronowski", "That is the essence of science: Ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.*Jacob Bronowski", "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.*John Burroughs", "All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.*Vincent Bugliosi", "One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.*Vincent Bugliosi", "Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.*Vincent Bugliosi", "Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.*Vannevar Bush", "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.*Samuel Butler", "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.*Samuel Butler", "’Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull.*Lord Byron", "Obstacles and problems are a part of life. True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice patience, and to learn.*Richard Carlson", "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.*Thomas Carlyle", "I don't pretend to understand the Universe--it's a great deal bigger than I am.*Thomas Carlyle", "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.*Andrew Carnegie", "The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that those who seek their own happiness do not find it; that those who are weak must suffer; that those who demand love will be disappointed; that those who are greedy will not be fed; that those who seek peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for those who do not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.*Joyce Cary", "The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are space and time.*S.Chandrasekhar", "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.*G.K. Chesterton", "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.*Winston Churchill", "A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.*Arthur C. Clarke", "A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Better be scared by imaginary crises than fail to react to real ones.*Arthur C. Clarke", "But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Don't ask questions that have ambiguous answers.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Dust moving at 50 kilometres a second can get through a surprising thickness of metal.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.*Arthur C. Clarke", "If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.*Arthur C. Clarke", "If our wisdom fails to match our science, we will have no second chance.*Arthur C. Clarke", "If there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure.*Arthur C. Clarke", "It is better to know the truth than to dabble in delusions.*Arthur C. Clarke", "It's a common delusion that authors must have experienced everything they describe in their books.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Most virtues have little merit unless they are spontaneous and unself-conscious.*Arthur C. Clarke", "New ideas pass through three periods: It can't be done. It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. I knew it was a good idea all along!*Arthur C. Clarke", "No machine ever volunteered more information than it was asked.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Nothing is so important that you cannot make fun of it.*Arthur C. Clarke", "No Utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Some electronic components are now so small that more time is spent looking for them than using them.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, sometimes I think we aren't: in both cases, the idea (makes me dizzy/is quite staggering).*Arthur C. Clarke", "The earth is simply too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.*Arthur C. Clarke", "The future isn't what it used to be.*Arthur C. Clarke", "There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.*Arthur C. Clarke", "There is no shock greater than that of the totally unexpected, for against it the mind has no chance to prepare its defenses.*Arthur C. Clarke", "The sign of a really skilled pilot is how he reacts not to foreseeable emergencies, but to ones that nobody could have anticipated.*Arthur C. Clarke", "The universe has no purpose and no plan.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Training was one thing, reality another.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Unless we invent a better future, we won't have one of any kind.*Arthur C. Clarke", "We all die alone.*Arthur C. Clarke", "We have passed on enough problems to the future and those who come after us will find many more.*Arthur C. Clarke", "We may have no malevolent intentions toward an ant heap, but if we want to build a house on the same site...*Arthur C. Clarke", "What's wrong with the plain, unvarnished truth? It's been known to work wonders on occasions.*Arthur C. Clarke", "What Nature can do, Man can do also, in his own way.*Arthur C. Clarke", "When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball instrumentation.*Arthur C. Clarke", "While there was life, there was hope.*Arthur C. Clarke", "Who would have dreamed, that a tube connecting two lenses of glass would pierce the swarming depths of our being, force on us incredible feats of sanitary engineering, master the plague, and create the giant upsurge out of unloosened human nature that we call the population explosion?*Arthur C. Clarke", "A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that . . . he is going to be a beginner all his life.*R. G. Collingwood", "Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.*Charles Caleb Colton", "Be slow in word but prompt in deed.*C", "Even if I could try a civil suit as well as anyone, it would be better to bring it about that there were no civil suits.*C", "It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.*C", "One who learns but does not think, is lost. One who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.*C", "One who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.*C", "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.*C", "Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.*C", "The demands that good people make are upon themselves; those that bad people make are upon others.*C", "The superior man ... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.*C", "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.*C", "What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.*C", "Theorem 100: This is the last theorem in the book. (The proof is obvious.)*John Horton Conway", "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.*Rich Cook", "So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.*Charles Horton Cooley", "It is not necessary to ask whether space exploration in desirable. It is necessary only to ask whether we believe in the need for human growth and evolution. We need not be confined to minor excitements or minor leaps. The great leaps are still the surest way to higher ground. Exactly what that higher ground has to offer is uncertain except for one presiding fact: it will point the way to yet higher stations. There is no guarantee that we will find any answers on these even more remote stations to any of the things we want to know. Yet we will discover something even more important. We will discover questions that we have never asked before. And the questions will be more rewarding than the answers, for the most devastating ignorance of all is not even to know what it is we do not know.*Norman Cousins", "I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.*Jacques Cousteau", "What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.*Jacques Cousteau", "The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.*Stephen R. Covey", "A man said to the Universe: 'Sir, I exist.' 'However,' replied the Universe, 'The fact has not instilled in me a sense of obligation.'*Stephen Crane", "Physicists are trained to investigate a problem before arriving at a decision. Lawyers, advertisers and others are trained to do exactly the opposite: to seek data to confirm a determination that has already been made.*Robert Crease", "You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don’t think there’s anything man wasn’t meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn’t do.*David Cronenberg", "Laplace presented Napoleon with a copy of Celestial Mechanics, in five volumes. 'You have written this huge book,' said Napoleon, 'without once mentioning the author of the universe.' 'Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis,' replied Laplace.*Vincent Cronin", "The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.*Samuel McChord Crothers", "Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realize the bath water is cold.*Lorraine Lee Cudmore", "Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, cell biologists are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.*Lorraine Lee Cudmore", "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.*Marie Curie", "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.*Marie Curie", "He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.*George William Curtis", "I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure— that is all that agnosticism means.*Clarence Darrow ", "Complex design arises naturally without the need to posit a designer.*Charles Robert Darwin", "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.*Charles Robert Darwin", "In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea occurs.*Sir Francis Darwin", "Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.*Leonardo da Vinci", "All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.*Richard Dawkins", "Darwinism can be well and truly generalized -- indeed universalized -- by identifying replication as the central phenomenon underlying any evolutionary process.*Richard Dawkins", "Evolution is an enchanted loom of shuttling DNA codes, whose evanescent patterns, as they dance their partners through geological deep time, weave a massive database of ancestral wisdom, a digitally coded description of ancestral worlds and what it took to survive in them.*Richard Dawkins", "Our genes may be immortal but the collection of genes which is any one of us is bound to crumble away...but if you contribute to the world's culture, if you have a good idea, compose a tune, invent a sparking plug, write a poem, it may live on, intact, long after your genes have dissolved in the common pool...*Richard Dawkins", "The fundamental nature of the universe consists of indivisible atoms in constant motion and travelling in an infinite void.*Democritus", "There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.*Baron de Montesquieu", "If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law.*Daniel C. Dennett", "It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.*Antoine de Rivarol", "Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am).*René Descartes", "Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.*René Descartes", "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.*René Descartes", "Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, 'What's in it for me?'*Peter De Vries", "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.*John Dewey", "Pragmatism as an instrumentalist theory of both logic and ethics in which the notion of 'warranted assertability' does all the same work as the notion of 'truth', but without the metaphysical baggage.*John Dewey", "The truth is that which works.*John Dewey", "Statistics is the physics of numbers.*P.Diaconis", "The brain is a three-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred-billion light years across.*Marian Diamond", "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.*Philip K. Dick", "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact...*Denis Diderot", "To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.*Joan Didion", "How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.*Anne Dillard", "Mastery of self, or 'self-sufficiency', leads to both happiness and freedom but requires constant practice and training in the face of adversity.*Diogenes of Sinope", "...the only physical theories that we are willing to accept are the beautiful ones... Physical laws should have mathematical beauty.*Paul Dirac", "My equation is smarter than I am.*Paul Dirac", "From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.*Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", "When you have excluded the impossible, what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.*Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", "I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find tha the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.*Freeman Dyson", "If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.*Freeman Dyson", "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.*Freeman Dyson", "Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.*Aubrey Eben", "I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.*Arthur Eddington", "The things which we might have built but did not are there just as much as those we did.*Sir Arthur Eddington", "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.*TAlbert Einstein", "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.*TAlbert Einstein", "There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something.*TAlbert Einstein", "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.*TAlbert Einstein", "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.*Paul Ehrlich", "A theory has only the alternatives of being wrong or right. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.*Manfred Eigen", "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.*Albert Einstein", "All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.*Albert Einstein", "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.*Albert Einstein", "As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.*Albert Einstein", "A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.*Albert Einstein", "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.*Albert Einstein", "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.*Albert Einstein", "God does not play dice with the universe.*Albert Einstein", "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.*Albert Einstein", "I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.*Albert Einstein", "If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as science can reveal it.*Albert Einstein", "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?*Albert Einstein", "I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.*Albert Einstein", "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.*Albert Einstein", "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.*Albert Einstein", "Joy and amazement at the beauty and grandeur of this world, of which man can just form a faint notion.*Albert Einstein", "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.*Albert Einstein", "Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not God ... I do not believe in the immorality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.*Albert Einstein", "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may as a rule be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.*Albert Einstein", "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.*Albert Einstein", "One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.*Albert Einstein", "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.*Albert Einstein", "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.*Albert Einstein", "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.*Albert Einstein", "Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.*Albert Einstein", "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.*Albert Einstein", "The important thing is not to stop questioning.*Albert Einstein", "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms— this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.*Albert Einstein", "The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.*Albert Einstein", "The most incomprehensible thing about our universe is that it is comprehensible.*Albert Einstein", "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.*Albert Einstein", "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.*Albert Einstein", "The right to for truth implies also a duty, one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.*Albert Einstein", "The shortest distance between two points is a curved line.*Albert Einstein", "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.*Albert Einstein", "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.*Albert Einstein", "The world, considered from the physical aspect, does exist independently of human consciousness.*Albert Einstein", "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.*Albert Einstein", "Two things inspire me to awe - the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.*Albert Einstein", "What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.*Albert Einstein", "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.*Albert Einstein", "Fifty million years lay under my feet, fifty million years of bellowing monsters moving in a green world now gone so utterly that its very light was traveling on the far edge of space. The chemicals of all that vanished age lay about me in the ground. The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorus had forgot the savage brain...*Loren Eiseley", "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.*Dwight D. Eisenhower", "A life in harmony with Nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text.*RWE", "All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.*RWE", "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.*RWE", "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.*RWE", "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches.*RWE", "Do not tell me . . . of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.*RWE", "Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful. . . . Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.*RWE", "Every property of matter is a school for the understanding,--its solidity or resistance, its inertia, its extension, its figure, it divisibility. The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures, and finds nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene.*RWE", "Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will... he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.*RWE", "How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.*RWE", "Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.*RWE", "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.*RWE", "Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.*RWE", "Science does not know its debt to imagination.*RWE", "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.*RWE", "The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.*RWE", "The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature.*RWE", "To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.*RWE", "Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are all but different faces of the same All.*RWE", "We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.*RWE", "Only the educated are free.*Epictetus", "An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities -- a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity.*Howard W. Eves", "If I could remember the names of all these particles, I would have been a botanist.*Enrico Fermi", "Experiments give 'hints', but also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations -- to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all...*RF", "I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not, but whether it's going on or not.*RF", "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.*RF", "Physics is like sex: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.*RF", "Reality must take precedence over public relations; for nature cannot be fooled.*RF", "The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, then go out: always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday.*RF", "The whole purpose of physics is to find a number, with decimal points, etc! Otherwise you haven't done anything.*RF", "UFOs are better explained in terms of the unknown irrationalities of terrestrial beings rather than by any unknown rationalities of extraterrestrial beings.*RF", "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.*RF", "What do you care what other people think.*RF", "It's a funny old world -- a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.*W.C. Fields", "Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceeding high degree of improbability.*R.A. Fisher", "My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.*Gustave Flaubert", "Not only is God playing dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.*Joseph Ford", "Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being.*Adrian Forsyth", "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.*Anne Frank", "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.*Benjamin Franklin", "Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.*Benjamin Franklin", "Experience keeps a hard school but a fool will learn at no other.*Benjamin Franklin", "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.*Benjamin Franklin", "Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.*Sigmund Freud", "Sometimes, I think we are alone. Sometimes I think we are not. In either case, the thought is quite staggering.*R. Buckminster Fuller", "And yet . . . it moves.*Galileo Galilei (referring to the earth, allegedly muttered this remark to his companion in 1633, as he rose from signing a recantation— forced on him by the Inquisition in Rome— of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system)", "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.*Galileo Galilei", "In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.*Galileo Galilei", "I think that in the discussion of natural problems, we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.*Galileo Galilei", "Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.*Galileo Galilei", "No one will be able to read the great book of the Universe if he does not understand its language, which is that of mathematics.*Galileo Galilei", "Whenever you can, count.*Francis Galton", "You must be the change you wish to see in the world.*Mahatma Gandhi", "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.*Carl Friedrich Gauss", "Dick [Feynman]'s method is this. You write down the problem. You think very hard. Then you write down the answer.*Murray Gell-Mann", "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.*Murray Gell-Mann", "One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field [physics] particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.*Murray Gell-Mann", "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.*Kahlil Gibran", "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.*Kahlil Gibran", "Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.*André Gide", "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.*Arnold H. Glasow", "A science is any discipline in which a fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.*Max Gluckman", "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality of tomorrow.*Robert Goddard", "In any formal system that is internally consistent, there will be some well-formed proposition that cannot be proven true or false (i.e. formally undecidable).*Kurt Gödel", "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has has genius, power, and magic in it.*Johann Wolfgang van Goethe", "Every moment Nature starts of the longest journey, and every moment she realizes her goal.*Goethe", "What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night, Through the labyrinth of the mind.*Goethe", "If we don't dare to dream, we won't find anything. Dreams are how the most exciting science happens.*Dan Goldin-NASA", "Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.*Stephen Jay Gould", "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.*Stephen Jay Gould", "Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.*Stephen Jay Gould", "Wonder and knowledge are both to be cherished. Shall we appreciate any less the beauty of nature because its harmony is unplanned? And shall the potential of mind cease to inspire our awe and fear because several billion neurons reside in our skulls?*Stephen Jay Gould", "All the arts and sciences have their roots in the struggle against death.*St. Gregory of Nyssa", "The secret of nature is symmetry. When searching for new and more fundamental laws of nature, we should search for new symmetries.*David Gross", "I see a nobility in the human capacity to puzzle, dream, calculate, check, and test, to work to find out how things are, to refuse false comfort, to try to find ways to make life better.*Susan Haack", "Religion and science really are profoundly at odds on a variety of dimensions, and science really is, on all those dimensions, far and away the more admirable enterprise.*Susan Haack", "Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose ... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.*J.B.S. Haldane", "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.*Tom Hanks", "Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.*G.H. Hardy", "Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.*G.H. Hardy", "The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.*G.H. Hardy", "Things simply exist; their sheer Existence is and always will be mysterious; and it is in that Mystery that pantheists find Divinity.*Paul Harrison", "My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.*Stephen Hawking", "Not only does God play dice, but He throws them where we cannot see them.*Stephen Hawking", "When I hear about Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun.*Stephen Hawking", "Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing.*Stephen Hawking", "To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.*George Wilhelm Fridrich Hegel", "Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.*George Wilhelm Fridrich Hegel", "Ultimate truth is slowly uncovered through the unfolding evolution of the history of ideas... falsified scientific theories are not in themselves wholly wrong, but merely do not tell the whole story. They are limited conceptions of a more all-embracing truth.*George Wilhelm Fridrich Hegel", "A problem worthy of attack, Proves its worth by fighting back.*Piet Hein", "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.*RAH", "Anything free is worth what you pay for it.*RAH", "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.*RAH", "Don't do anything that can't be fixed!*RAH", "Duty is not what others expect of you; it is what you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you assume voluntarily.*RAH", "Explanations are a poor defense.*RAH", "Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.*RAH", "If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.*RAH", "It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.*RAH", "It's theoretically possible to live forever, too. But no one has ever managed it.*RAH", "Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.*RAH", "Natural laws have no pity.*RAH", "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.*RAH", "One person's 'magic' is another person's engineering.*RAH", "Physics doesn't have to have any use. It just is.*RAH", "Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.*RAH", "SF: realistic speculation about possible events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present.*RAH", "Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.*RAH", "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.*RAH", "The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.*RAH", "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.*RAH", "Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. So learn to say NO!*RAH", "What are the facts? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!*RAH", "You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.*RAH", "The most direct, and in a sense the most important, problem which our conscious knowledge of Nature should enable us to solve is the anticipation of future events.*Heinrich Hertz", "An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.*Werner Heisenberg", "What something means is what it means in mathematics. Mathematics is sense!*Werner Heisenberg", "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.*Werner Heisenburg", "A man's character is his fate.*Heraclitus", "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, fullness and hunger.*Heraclitus", "Much learning does not teach understanding.*Heraclitus", "The universe was ever, is now, and ever shall be, an ever-living Fire.*Heraclitus", "An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.*John Herro", "The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.*David Hilbert", "Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.*Edmund Hillary", "Every man operates according to a natural law of self-preservation. We each want what is good for ourselves, and the (social contract) covenant ensures that this can only be gained by taking into account the good of others.*Thomas Hobbes", "Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.*Thomas Hobbes", "Such truth, as opposeth no man’s profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.*Thomas Hobbes", "Irrationality is the square root of all evil.*Douglas Hofstadter", "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.*Oliver Wendell Holmes", "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.*Oliver Wendell Holmes", "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.*Oliver Wendell Holmes", "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.*Oliver Wendell Holmes", "The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.*John Hughes Holmes", "Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane. We [scientists] ... should do what we can, or we shall be pushed out of the common culture. The lab remains our workplace, but it must not become our hiding place.*Gerald Holton", "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.*Sir Fred Hoyle", "Responsibility is the price of freedom.*Elbert Hubbard", "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.*David Hume", "Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.*Hubert H. Humphrey", "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.*Aldous Huxley", "Advance in science comes by laying brick upon brick, not by sudden erection of fairy palaces.*J.S. Huxley", "Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.*Thomas Henry Huxley", "Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.*Thomas Henry Huxley", "The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.*Thomas Henry Huxley", "The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.*Thomas H. Huxley", "A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...*RI", "Art cultivates and kindles the imagination, and quickens the conscience.*RI", "Heaven is where those are we love, and those who love us.*RI", "If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.*RI", "If his brain is developed - if he perceives clearly that all things are naturally produced, he ceases to be superstitious, and becomes scientific. . . . He does not worship, he works; he investigates; he thinks; he takes advantage, through intelligence, of the forces of nature.*RI", "To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.*RI", "When I meet the maker of the universe, I would like to be able to tell Him a little of how it works.*John D. Isaacs", "Intuition is reason in a hurry.*Holbrook Jackson", "The 'reductio ad absurdum' is God's favorite argument.*Holbrook Jackson", "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away - and barefoot.*Sarah Jackson", "All knowledge is pragmatic - in other words, something is either true or right just insofar as it has a succesful application to the world.*William James", "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.*William James", "Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.*William James", "There can be no difference anywhere that doesn't make a difference elsewhere.*William James", "The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.*William James", "The division of the stars into constellations tells us very little about the stars, but a great deal about the minds of the earliest civilizations.*James Jeans", "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.*TJ", "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.*TJ", "Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.*TJ", "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.*TJ", "The whole of government consists in the art of being honest.*TJ", "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.*TJ", "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.*Lyndon B. Johnson", "The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.*Samuel Johnson", "We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.*Carl G. Jung", "Act by that maxium which you can at the same time will as a universal law (the categorical imperative).*Immanuel Kant", "Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!*OK", "Hear from the spirit-world this mystery: Creation is summed up, O man, in thee; Angel and demon, man and beast art thou, Yea, thou art all thou dost appear to be!*OK", "Here in this tavern-haunt I make my lair, Pawning for wine, heart, soul, and all I wear, Without a hope of bliss, or fear of bale, Rapt above water, earth, and fire, and air.*OK", "I dreamt a sage said, 'Wherefore life consume In sleep? Can sleep make pleasure's roses bloom? For gather not with death's twin-brother sleep, Thou wilt have sleep enough within thy tomb!'*OK", "Let him rejoice who has a loaf of bread, A little nest wherein to lay his head, Is slave to none, and no man slaves for him--- In truth his lot is wondrous well bested.*OK", "Man is the whole creation's summary, The precious apple of great wisdom's eye; The circle of existence is a ring, Whereof the signet is humanity.*OK", "Not-being's water served to mix my clay, And on my heart grief's fire doth ever prey, And blown am I like wind about the world, And last my crumbling earth is swept away.*OK", "Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too.*OK", "What lord is fit to rule but 'Truth'? Not one. What beings disobey His rule? Not one. All things that are, are such as He decrees; And naught is there beside beneath the sun.*OK", "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'— that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.*John Keats", "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.*John Keats", "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.*Helen Keller", "Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge— broad, deep knowledge— is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.*Helen Keller", "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.*Helen Keller", "Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.*Helen Keller", "Science is the most reliable guide in life.*Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk)", "And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable - and we believe they can do it again.*John F. Kennedy", "Nature uses as little as possible of anything.*Johannes Kepler", "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.*Kernigan", "People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.*Charles Kettering", "Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend.*Omar Khayyám/Edward Fitzgerald", "Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.*Sören Kierkegaard", "The irony of life is that it is lived forward but understood backward.*Sören Kierkegaard", "What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know... the thing is to find a truth for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.*Sören Kierkegaard", "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.*Martin Luther King, Jr.", "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.*Martin Luther King, Jr.", "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.*Martin Luther King, Jr.", "Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.*Alfred L. Kroeber", "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.*Louis Kronenberger", "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.*Charles Lamb", "Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.*Walter Savage Landor", "A tree that can fill the span of a man’s arms, Grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high, Rises from sodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles, Starts from beneath one’s feet.*Lao-Tzu", "He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.*Lao-Tzu", "Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub. It is the centre hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore profit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.*Lao-tzu", "To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.*Lao-Tzu", "The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated...*Pierre Simon de Laplace", "If the universe is the answer, what is the question?*Leon Lederman", "Physics is not a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.*Leon Lederman", "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.*Gottfried Leibniz", "I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.*Jerome Lejeune", "The evolution of the world can be compared to a display of fireworks that has just ended: some few red wisps, ashes, and smoke. Standing on a cooled cinder, we see the slow fading of suns, and we try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the world...*Lemaitre", "The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.*Claude Lévi-Strauss", "As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn’t let it go for less than half-a-crown . . .*GCL", "Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.*GCL", "Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.*GCL", "Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.*GCL", "Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.*GCL", "I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.*GCL", "Ideas too are a life and a world.*GCL", "Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.*GCL", "Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.*GCL", "Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.*GCL", "Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.*GCL", "That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.*GCL", "The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.*GCL", "We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.*GCL", "With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.*GCL", "We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reason.*Thomas Lickona", "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.*Abraham Lincoln", "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.*Abraham Lincoln", "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.*Abraham Lincoln", "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.*Abraham Lincoln", "Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.*Abraham Lincoln", "The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.*Walter Lippmann", "A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.*John Locke", "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.*John Locke", "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.*Konrad Lorenz", "Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.*Konrad (Zacharias) Lorenz", "The incompatibility between science and religion is simply this: a scientist will not believe anything until he sees it; a religious man will not see anything until he believes in it.*Charles J. C. Lyall", "If we knew history better, we would find a great intelligence at the origin of every innovation.*Emile Male", "Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometric ratio.*Thomas Malthus", "Challenges are what make life interesting: overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.*Joshua J. Marine", "Religious experiences are like those induced by drugs, alcohol, mental illness, and sleep deprivation: They tell no uniform or coherent story, and there is no plausible theory to account for discrepancies among them.*Michael Martin", "Don't bite my finger--look where it's pointing.*Warren S. McCulloch", "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.*Margaret Mead", "For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.*H.L. Mencken", "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the same extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.*H. L. Mencken", "Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.*Owen Meredith", "Simplicity is the key to effective scientific inquiry.*Stanley Milgram", "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse... However, we should only be concerned with morality in those aspects of life that require sanctions to deter specific kinds of conduct. Otherwise a person is morally and legally free to pursue their life as they see fit.*John Stuart Mill", "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.*John Milton", "Reason is also choice.*John Milton", "My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.*Edgar Mitchell, USA", "When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.*Wilson Mizner", "Man knows in the end that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe from which he has emerged by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty is written down anywhere.*Jacques Lucien Monod", "Technical civilization, and the human minds that support it, are the first feeble stirrings of a radically new form of existence, one as different from life as life is from simple chemistry.*Hans Moravec", "Human beings are animals. They are sometimes monsters, sometimes magnificent, but always animals. They may prefer to think of themselves as fallen angels, but in reality they are risen apes.*Desmond Morris", "You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.*P.E. Morris", "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it hitched to the rest of the universe.*John Muir", "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.*Edward R. Murrow", "Quantum particles: the dreams that stuff is made of.*David Moser", "Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.*Howard Nemerov", "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.*John von Neumann", "We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.*John Henry Newman", "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and them finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.*Isaac Newton", "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.*Isaac Newton", "He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.*Friedrich Nietzsche", "In Christianity I see the resentment of the weak towards the strong. Those who failed to have to have the courage to master their own passions, who lacked, ultimately, inner strength of character...*Friedrich Nietzsche", "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.*Friedrich Nietzsche", "The man of virtue, too, helps the unfortunate, but not, or almost not, out of pity, but prompted by an urge which is begotten by the excess of power.*Friedrich Nietzsche", "The 'Kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart— not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'*Friedrich Nietzsche", "The strong are those who are more complete as human beings, who have learnt to sublimate and control their passions, to channel the will to power into a creative force.*Friedrich Nietzsche", "We must be physicists in order . . . to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.*Friedrich Nietzsche", "A negotiator should never admit to being under a deadline.*LN", "Any fool can foresee the past.*LN", "A sorcerer who cannot kill one miserable swordsman is a poor excuse for a sorcerer.*LN", "A species that can't develop space flight is no better than animals.*LN", "Basic physics is nothing more than probability at the atomic level.*LN", "Boredom is my worst enemy. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.*LN", "Doctors make population problems worse.*LN", "Emergencies never happen at a convenient time.*LN", "Every planet has its own peculiarities.*LN", "Every sentient species has its quirks.*LN", "Everything starts as someone's daydream.*LN", "Fear is the brother of hate.*LN", "Fortune comes to the man who leaves nothing to chance.*LN", "Half a year or more spent alone in a single ship was a good way to find out whether you liked yourself.*LN", "Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.*LN", "How much intelligence does it takes to sneak up on a leaf?*LN", "If you can wake up in the morning with nothing hurting anywhere, it's a sign that you have died in the night.*LN", "I materialized it from thin air. We Scientists have our ways, you know.*LN", "It's a big universe, but some things really are impossible.*LN", "It's not easy to follow two sets of rules simultaneously.*LN", "It takes continuity to make history.*LN", "Knowledge. You have it, you give it away, you still have it.*LN", "Lady Luck has no memory at all.*LN", "Luck is a thing of dubious interpretation.*LN", "My guideline is that aliens don't think like humans do.*LN", "Nature isn't humane.*LN", "Never waste fuel, you may want it someday.*LN", "Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.*LN", "Niven's Law: If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time travel and of changing the past, then no time machine will be invented in that universe.*LN", "No knowledge is worth gaining unless it can be reported.*LN", "Pain is a great teacher.*LN", "Putting a monkey wrench in machinery is often the only way to force somebody to repair, replace, or redesign the machinery.*LN", "Speculation starts with assumptions. If you don't like mine, try your own.*LN", "The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.*LN", "The human species is not invulnerable.*LN", "The laws of probability do provide for coincidence.*LN", "The more you know, the less often you get killed.*LN", "The more thoroughly we control our environment, the more dangerous it is to forget it.*LN", "The older I am, the more I would give to be young again.*LN", "The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum.*LN", "The process of living is a game of chance. To avoid chance is insanity.*LN", "There is a difference between knowledge from school and knowledge from work.*LN", "There is never no hope left.*LN", "The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.*LN", "The universe will learn us or kill us.*LN", "Tired people make mistakes.*LN", "To seek knowledge is natural!*LN", "To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.*LN", "When you know what is happening, it can't frighten you.*LN", "You don't know how to steal a spacecraft until you can land it.*LN", "You have to learn not to buy luxuries before you've bought necessities. You can starve learning which is which.*LN", "You learn to put hunger out of your mind during a famine.*LN", "You only learn to ask more questions.*LN", "You've got to learn to think paranoid.*LN", "Contentment is the only real wealth.*Alfred Nobel", "Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity - Occam's Razor (Choose the simplest theory which accounts for all the facts).*William of Occam", "And all your future lies beneath your hat.*John Oldham", "Happiness hates the timid! So does science!*Eugene O'Neill", "One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.*P.J. O’Rourke", "We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever it seems.*Arthur O'Shaughnessy", "Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.*William Osler", "A physicist is a mathematician with a feeling for reality.*Norman Packard", "It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.*Thomas Paine", "The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.*Thomas Paine", "The world is my country, and to do good my religion.*Thomas Paine", "What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.*Thomas Paine", "The apparent uniqueness of the Universe primarily depends upon the fact that we can conceive of so many alternatives to it.*Charles Pantin", "Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'*Dave Parnas", "Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.*Blaise Pascal ", "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.*Blaise Pascal", "In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.*Louis Pasteur", "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation.*Louis Pasteur", "There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.*Louis Pasteur", "Existence, Life, and Consciousness -- the Real Holy Trinity.*Saif Patel", "That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!*Wolfgang Pauli", "Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.*Linus Pauling", "We do not remember days, we remember moments.*Cesare Pavese", "If one can define accurately all the conceivable experimental phenomena which the affirmation or denial of a concept could imply, one will have a complete definition of the concept (guiding principle of Pragmaticist philosophy).*Charles Sanders Pierce", "It is easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.*Charles Sanders Peirce", "There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.*Charles Sanders Pierce", "The only scientific hypothesis that can make sense of the appearance of regularities in nature is one that takes reality to consist of phenomena governed by general, independent laws of nature.*Charles Sanders Pierce", "Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.*Pascal Pensées", "The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.*Eden Phillpotts", "Data without generalization is just gossip.*Robert Pirsig", "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.*Maxwell Planck", "Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'*Maxwell Planck", "It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.*Max Planck", "The increasing distance of the physical world picture from the world of the senses means nothing but a progressive approach to the real world.*Max Planck", "And all arithmetic and calculation have to do with number? Yes. And they appear to lead the mind toward truth? Yes, in a very remarkable manner.*Plato - The Republic", "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.*Plutarch", "When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.*Plutarch", "Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.*Jules Henri Poincaré", "The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.*Jules Henri Poincaré", "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.*Jules Henri Poincaré", "This principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.*George Polya", "There is a simplicity in the whole scheme, so much so that you almost feel the whole universe is trying to make life. With the knowledge of organic chemistry from the work we've done, I'm willing to say that eventually we'll define life as a property of the carbon atom. The first thing I tell my students is that a professor in the constellation Andromeda is teaching the same course I am.*Cyril Ponnamperuma", "If the physical laws of this world are autonomous, we are not free; if we are free, then the physical laws are not autonomous.*Karl Popper", "The mark of a scientific theory is whether it makes predictions that could in principle serve to falsify it.*Karl Popper", "Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.*J.B. Priestly", "It has been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that he can dispense with a creator.*Marcel Proust", "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.*Marcel Proust", "Be cheerful while you are alive.*P", "Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned...*P", "Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than is ordered; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit...When riches are gained, follow desire, for riches will not profit if one is sluggish.*P", "One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.*P", "Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgement and all exactitude shall enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise.*P", "Truth is great and its effectiveness endures.*P", "a^2+b^2=c^2 Pythagorean Theorem w.r.t. the sides and hypotenuse of a right triangle.*Pythagoras of Samos", "Reason is immortal, all else mortal.*Pythagoras of Samos", "...the finest type of man gives himself up to discovering the meaning and purpose of life itself. He seeks to uncover the secrets of nature. This is the man I call a philosopher for although no man is completely wise in all respects, he can love wisdom as the key to nature's secrets.*Pythagoras of Samos", "For NASA, space is still a high priority.*Dan Quayle", "If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.*Robert Quillen", "Only science can tell us about the world: it is the final arbiter of the truth.*W.V.O. Quine", "Science is essentially a pragmatic exercise concerned with predicting future sensory experience.*W.V.O. Quine", "Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.*Willard Quine", "At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.*Ann Radcliffe", "Existence and consciousness exist. Reason and rational self-interest are virtues. Free trade.*Ayn Rand", "I am; therefore, I will think.*Ayn Rand", "Man is a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, non-aggression as his standard of social behavior, productive achievement a his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.*Ayn Rand", "The human Spirit. The heroic in Man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest -- and uplifting by its own Essence. Seeking God -- and finding Itself.*Ayn Rand", "There is--existence; something--identity; I am aware of --consciousness. These three are the basic axiomatic concepts recognized by the philosophy of Objectivism. They are perceptual self-evidencies.*Ayn Rand", "To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.*James Randi", "Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.*Wilhelm Reich", "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.*Chuck Reid", "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.*Stephen Roberts", "Miracles are explainable; it is the explanations that are miraculous.*Tim Robinson", "It ain't what you don't know, that counts, it's what you know that ain't so.*Will Rogers", "To educate a person in mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.*Theodore Roosevelt", "It is striking how many great scientists have incorporated play into their lives and work. One mental quality that facilitates discovery is a willingness to goof around.*Robert S. Root-Bernstein", "Man is a biodegradable but non-recyclable animal blessed with opposable thumbs capable of grasping at straws.*Bernard Rosenberg", "Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.*Jean Rostand", "Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.*Leo Rosten", "A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of this free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.*BR", "A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.*BR", "Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.*BR", "A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress— though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.*BR", "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.*BR", "If everything must have a cause then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument.*BR", "In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.*BR", "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.*BR", "Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.*BR", "Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.*BR", "Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.*BR", "The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.*BR", "Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.*BR", "To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.*BR", "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.*Mark Russell", "All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.*Ernest Rutherford", "In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.*Ernest Rutherford", "You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1.*Ernest Rutherford", "Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.*CS", "Science . . . is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.*CS", "Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.*CS", "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.*CS", "We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.*CS", "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.*CS", "Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.*CS", "I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.*George Santayana", "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.*George Santayana", "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.*George Santayana", "The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.*George Santayana", "Everything we do affects not only ourselves, but by our choices and actions we set examples for the rest of mankind. Such responsibility is a consequence of the fact that we define our own meaning of life.*Jean-Paul Sartre", "Existentialism exhibits 'a sterness of optimism'. It's optimistic message is that 'the destiny of man is placed within himself'.*Jean-Paul Sartre", "Man will do nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities; without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.*Jean-Paul Sartre", "There is no Providence. We must each rely only on that which we can affect by our own will and action.*Jean-Paul Sartre", "When we make a choice, it is not merely a personal preference, but a statement to the world that this is how life should be led.*Jean-Paul Sartre", "The Absolute or 'World Soul' is expressed through the dual aspects of nature and mind. Everything that exists is part of the One. The Universe or cosmos is a complete entity unfolding in time... the conscious self is itself the consciousness of the Universe, the 'World-Soul', as it unfolds and expresses itself through time. Through man, then, the Absolute becomes conscious of itself.*Fredrick Wilhelm Schelling", "Virtue is reason which has become energy.*Friedrich Schlegel", "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.*Arthur M. Schlesinger", "A statement is meaningful if it is either true by definition or is in principle verifiable by existence.*Moritz Schlick", "As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.*Arthur Schopenhauer", "Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.*Richard Selzer", "The only good is virtue. Doing the right thing is of paramount importance...*Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "Give every man thine ear but few thy voice. Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement.*William Shakespeare", "We know what we are, but know not what we may be.*William Shakespeare", "O, it is excellent, To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous, To use it like a giant.*William Shakespeare", "What's in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.*William Shakespeare", "All problems are finally scientific problems.*George Bernard Shaw", "Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.*George Bernard Shaw", "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't work for the rabbit!*R.E. Shay", "If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.*Brooke Shields", "If you want to drive a cryptographer crazy, send her a page of random text.*Mark Shirey", "I knew a mathematician who said, 'I do not know as much as God, but I know as much as God did at my age'.*Milton Shulman", "A man, viewed as a behaving system, is quite simple. The apparent complexity of his behaviour over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which he finds himself.*Herbert Simon", "There is increasing recognition of a new science of extraterrestrial life; sometimes called exobiology -- a curious development in view of the fact that this 'science' has yet to demonstrate that its subject matter exists.*George G. Simpson", "We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice.*Isaac Singer", "Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.*Adam Smith", "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.*Adam Smith", "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.*Adam Smith", "'Unintended consequences of intended action' will be to the benefit of society at large -- i.e. in intentionally serving one's own interests, one unintentionally serves the interests of society as a whole.*Adam Smith", "If a city can make itself, without a maker, why can the same not be true of the universe?*Lee Smolin", "An unexamined life is not worth living.*Socrates", "It seemed to me a superlative thing--to know the explanation of everything, why it comes to be, why it perishes, why it is.*Socrates", "Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.*Henry Spencer", "Science is organized knowledge.*Herbert Spencer", "Everything in the universe is One. There is only one substance, and that substance we can conceive of as either Nature or God...This reality, Nature or God, is wholly self-contained, self-causing, and self-sufficient. Everything in the universe is a part of God, and everything that happens is a necessary part or expression of the divine nature. (Pantheism)*Benedict de Spinoza", "Mind and body are just different ways of conceiving the same reality.*Benedict de Spinoza", "...experience tells us clearly that men believe themselves to be free simply because they are conscious of their actions and unconscious of the causes whereby these actions are determined; further, it is plain that the dictates of the mind are simply another name for the appetites that vary according to the varying states of the body. (Determinism)*Benedict de Spinoza", "We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.*Viola Spolin", "Anybody who knows all about nothing knows everything.*Leonard Susskind", "Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer’s gaze.*James Joseph Sylvester", "Music is the Mathematics of Sense. Mathematics is the Music of Reason.*Sylvester", "Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.*Publius Syrus", "If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.*Albert Szent-Györgi", "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.*Albert Szent-Györgi", "If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.*Rabindranath Tagore", "A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.*Edward Teller", "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.*Edward Teller", "(paraphrased) Seek to give a naturalistic explanation of observable phenonmena, rather than appealing to the wills of the gods...for the mind of the world is god...god is intermingled with all things.*Thales of Miletus 620-?540 BC (considered the 1st natural scientist and analytical philosopher in Western intellectual history)", "That's what I like about Lord Young. While you all bring me problems, he brings me solutions.*Margaret Thatcher", "At the moment we are an ignorant species, flummoxed by the puzzles of who we are, where we came from, and what we are for. It is a gamble to bet on science for moving ahead, but it is, in my view, the only game in town.*Lewis Thomas", "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.*Lewis Thomas", "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.*Lewis Thomas", "The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.*Lewis Thomas", "All things -- linked are, ... That thou canst not stir a flower, without troubling of a star.*Francis Thompson", "Numerical precision is the very soul of science.*Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson", "The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.*Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson", "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.*Henry David Thoreau", "He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.*Henry David Thoreau", "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.*Henry David Thoreau", "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.*Henry David Thoreau", "This is the remarkable paradox of mathematics: no matter how determinedly its practitioners ignore the world, they consistently produce the best tools for understanding it.*John Tierney", "The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.*Alvin Toffler", "It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.*J.R.R.Tolkien", "Infinity is just time on an ego trip.*Lily Tomlin", "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.*Edward P. Tryon.", "Mankind will not remain on Earth forever, but in its quest for light and space will at first timidly penetrate beyond the confines of the atmosphere, and later will conquer for itself all the space near the Sun.*Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky", "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.*MT", "It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.*MT", "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.*MT", "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.*MT", "What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought— an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightnings carry your messages. To be the first— that is the idea.*MT", "Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.*Miguel do Unanimo", "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.*John Updike", "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.*Paul Valéry", "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.*Paul Valery", "Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.*Virgil", "Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.*Wernher von Braun", "I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.*Wernher von Braun", "It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.*Wernher von Braun", "Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.*Wernher von Braun", "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.*Wernher von Braun", "A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.*George Wald", "We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.*George Wald", "In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.*Hugh Walpole", "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.*WAW", "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.*WAW", "Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.*WAW", "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.*WAW", "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.*WAW", "Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.*WAW", "Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.*WAW", "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.*WAW", "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.*WAW", "To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.*WAW", "We are more than what we do, much more than what we accomplish, far more than what we possess.*WAW", "We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.*WAW", "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.*WAW", "Meteorites are busted pieces of stained glass windows -- windows that let you look back in time.*Gerald Wasserburg", "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.*Thomas J. Watson", "Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.*James D. Watson", "The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.*Steven Weinberg", "The most extreme hope for science is that we will be able to trace the explanation of all natural phenomena to final laws and historical accidents.*Steven Weinberg", "The reality we observe in out laboratories is only an imperfect reflection of a deeper, more beautiful reality.*Steven Weinberg", "[The epic learning game we call science] formalizes our special kind of collective memory, or species memory, in which each generation builds on what has been learned by those that came before, following in each other's footsteps, standing on each other's shoulders. Each generation values what it can learn from the one before, and prizes the discoveries it will pass on to the next, so that we see farther and farther, climbing an infinite mountain.*Jonathan Weiner", "It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.*Victor Weisskopf", "The only sin is if you hear a good idea and you don't steal it.*Victor Weisskopf", "What's beautiful in science is the same thing that's beautiful in Beethoven... It connects things that were always in you that were never put together before.*Victor Weisskopf", "We look back through countless millions of years and see the great will to live struggling out of the intertidal slime...we watch it draw near and more akin to us, expanding, elaborating itself, pursuing its relentless inconceivable purpose, until at last it reaches us and its being beats through our brains and arteries. It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before awakening. A day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars.*H.G.Wells", "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.*Edith Wharton", "What is it that puts fire in the equations and makes them come alive?*John A. Wheeler", "The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.*William Whewell", "A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.*Alfred North Whitehead", "It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true ... But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.*Alfred North Whitehead", "Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.*Alfred North Whitehead", "The real importance of the Greeks for the progress of the world is that they discovered the almost incredible secret that the speculative Reason was itself subject to orderly methods.*Alfred North Whitehead", "We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.*Oscar Wilde", "It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.*William of Occam", "Most of the issues that vex humanity daily...can be solved only by integrating knowledge from the natural sciences with that from the social sciences and the humanities. Only fluency across the boundaries will provide a clear view of the world as it really is, not as it appears through the lens of ideology and religious dogma, or as a myopic response solely to immediate need.*Edward O. Wilson", "Google is THE search engine!*John B. Wilson", "Seas of good fortune, To he that sees and seizes, Opportunities.*John B. Wilson", "In thinking and trying out ideas about what is a 'field theory' I found it very helpful to demand that a correctly formulated field theory to be solvable.*Kenneth Wilson", "Nature is the one place where miracles not only happen, but happen all the time.*Thomas Wolfe", "Many physical systems are computationally irreducible, so that their own evolution is effectively the most efficient procedure for determining their future.*Stephen Wolfram", "Black holes are where God divided by zero.*Stephen Wright", "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.*Steven Wright", "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.*Wilbur Wright", "If horses could draw, they would draw their gods like horses.*Xenophanes of Colophon", "Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity.*E. 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