В них много мусора, но иногда попадается интересное.
It is easy
-- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take
advantage of
that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Take care of what
you are
doing. Take care.
-- George Bernard Shaw, “Candida”
The story so
far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a
lot of
people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams, “The Restaurant at the
End of the Universe”
Try to learn
something about everything and everything about something.
-- T.H. Huxley
To hate is
to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to
appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.
-- John A. Wheeler
Government,
today, is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any
citizens in
the world; there are only subjects. They work day in and day out
for their
masters; they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this
working and
dying they tend to get less and less.
-- H.L. Mencken
It is
ordinary for us to poison rivers also; yea and the very elements whereof the
world doth stand, are by us infected: for even the air itself, wherein and whereby
all things should live, we corrupt to their mischief and destruction.
-- Pliny the Elder, the Natural History,
tr. Philemon Holland
Two
paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
-- Edward Teller
If we take
in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for
instance;
let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning
quantity or
number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter
of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain
nothing but sophistry and illusion.
-- David Hume
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
Yes, Agassiz
*does* recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain.
So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount
you need to eat -- at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition
you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of
whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but
simply good middling-sized whales.
-- Mark Twain
My religion
consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals
himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble
mind.
-- Albert Einstein
Every gun
that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final
sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and
are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its
children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds
of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The sooner
you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be
able to
correct them.
-- Kimon Nicolaides
I keep the
subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning
opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
--
Isaac Newton
We are all
in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde
My work
always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to
choose one
or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
-- Hermann Weyl
We can lick
gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wernher Von Braun
Should I not
have changed either the day for carrying out my scheme, or the
scheme
itself -- but preferably only the day?
-- Ovid, “The Metamorphoses”
The idea of
an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think
itself so
superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique
relation to
its maker?... Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of
worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world
created."
Until we
become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will
always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive
than creative.
-- Murray Bookchin
A person who
lacks the means, within himself, to live a good and happy life
will find
any period of his existence wearisome.
-- Cicero, "On Old Age"
