I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
--Blaise Pascal
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
--Steward L. Udall
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
- -Joe Theisman, former quarterback
A court common to all is swept by no one.
--Chinese Proverb
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
--Albert Camus, (1913-1960)
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
--Arthur Schopenhauer, (1788-1860)
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
--Vince Lombardi
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
--Albert Einstein
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
--Charles Darwin
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
--Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
--Prince Charles
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.
--Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Religion--freedom--vengeance--what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
--Lord Byron, (1788-1824)
The historical past has a persistent and penetrating influence upon the behavior and ideas of any generation...If we would diagnose our own age we had better do so historically, for history is the essence of human culture and thought.
--Robert A. Nisbet
Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
--Solon, (c. 638-c558 BCE)
O wad some Power the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!
--Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us.
--Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
--Leonardo Da Vinci, (1452-1519)
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
--Garrison Keillor, (1942- )
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