Quotes by Scientists - Page 5

Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.
Mark Lawrence
Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
Francis Bacon
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
G. Norman Collie
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.
Michael Faraday
I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.
Temple Grandin
Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
Roy Amara
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
Francis Bacon
When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all over, all of it! There is not a hint of the world that once was, not one bulse-beat of those past emotions. I feel like a ghost returning to the burnt-out ruins of the castle he built in his prime as a prince, which he adorned with magnificent splendours and then, on his deathbed, but full of hope, left to his beloved son
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.
Stephanie Osborn
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world needs all types of minds.
Temple Grandin
Now we have so many methods of communication: Land phone, Fax, Pager, Mobile phone, Texting, E mail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...and the list keeps growing.......But Communication itself has not improved!
Ankala V Subbarao
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Michael Faraday
Maybe beauty had nothing to do with the garbage TV tried to sell us. It was more a matter of confidence. Either way, I had none.
Gaia B. Amman
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
René Descartes
Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.
Mark Lawrence
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Sometimes guitar riffs get repeated over and over ("vamping," in the lingo of musicians), but generally there is a soloist proving variation that runs above that background, lest the song sound monotonous. Philip Glass's minimalist compositions (such as the soundtrack to 'Koyaanisqatsi') deviate from much of the classical music that preceded them, with much less obvious movement than, say, the Romantic-era compositions that his work seems to rebel against, yet his works, too, consist not only of extensive repetition but also of constant (though subtle) variation. Virtually every song you've ever heard consists of exactly that: themes that recur over and over, overlaid with variations.
Gary F. Marcus
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.
Piet Hein
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
He broke off his explanation, seeing in his daughter's eyes the exact moment that a child first understands there are limits on what her parents can do, rather than just limits on what they choose to do. He knelt before her in a moment's silence, somewhat less than he had been just seconds before, and Emy a half step closer to the woman she would one day become.
Mark Lawrence
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.
Mark Lawrence
I demolish my bridges behind me ... then there is no choice but forward.
Firdtjof Nansen
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.
Irina Kovalyova
A stitch in time saves nine......if the patient goes to the doctor early...
Ankala Subbarao
It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.
Mark Lawrence
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising abov
Jacques Charles
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly
Ankala V Subbarao
Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology
Ryan Bethencourt
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Nature is the best Time-keeper.
Ankala V Subbarao
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
Francis Bacon
It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball or an egg: we can see their shapes at a glance. Yet suppose that instead of the impression made on our eye by an aggregate of white points forming the surface of an egg, we were presented with another, logically equivalent, presentation of these points as given by a list of their spatial co-ordinate values. It would take years of labour to discover the shape inherent in this aggregate of figures - provided it could be guessed at all. The perception of the egg from the list of co-ordinate values would, in fact, be a feat rather similar in nature and measure of intellectual achievement to the discovery of the Copernican system.
Michael Polanyi
Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody can be lucky all the time,so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon't think you've been abandoned in your prime,but rather that you're saving up your ration.
Piet Hein
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.
Alastair Reynolds
I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams.I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams.I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes;At night when on a fragile bridge the traveler quakes.I hear you when the billows rise on high,With murmur deep.To tread the silent grove where wander I,When all's asleep.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.
Simon Morden
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?
Mark Lawrence
It's called optimism — but I’m losing the hang of it fast.
Alastair Reynolds
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Where is it written that one should only care about big things?
David Brin
What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage.
Theodore Jerome Cohen
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
O.A. Battista