It must be remembered that necessity is only the mother of invention; socially accumulated knowledge is its father.
--Robert K. Merton, (1910-2003)
The only gift is giving to the poor; / All else is exchange.
--Thiruvalluvar, (c. 30 BCE)
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
--Johannes Kepler, (1571-1630)
The great tragedy of science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
--Thomas Huxley, (1825-1895)
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
--George Bernard Shaw
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
--Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman and reformer (1829-1906)
If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
--John F. Kennedy, (1917-1963)
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
--Thomas Mann, (1875-1955)
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
--Ouida [pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee], novelist (1839-1908)
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-- Peter Drucker
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
--Mario M Cuomo, (1932- )
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
--Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
--Joseph Joubert, (1754-1824)
You are never too old to be what you might have been.
--George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), (1819-1880)
I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
--Konrad Lorenz, (1903-1989)
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
--Ambrose Bierce, (1842-1914)
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
--Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
--Abigail Van Buren, (1918- )
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
--William Arthur Ward, (1921-1994)
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
--Marcus Aurelius, philosopher (121-180)
Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
--Mark Twain, (1835-1910)
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
-Ray Bradbury, (1920- )
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
--W. C. Fields
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