Quotes
Edward Witten
The hardest part of research is always to find a question that’s big enough that it’s worth answering, but little enough that you actually can answer it.
Bruce Lee
Using no way a way, having no limitation as limitation.
Wolfgang Pauli
To us … the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality – the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical – as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously. It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.
Carl Sagan
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
Peter Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Manfred Eigen
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.
Audrey Hepburn
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Paul Dirac
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
Bruce Lee
A goal is not always meant to reached, it often serves as something to aim at.
Charles Bukowski
Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.
Jim Carrey
You will only ever have two choices: Love or Fear. Choose love and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Murray Gell-Mann
Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn’t mean all bets are off.
Robert Sapolsky
Dopamine is not about the pursuit of happiness, it is about the happiness of pursuit.
Phillips Brooks
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now… Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
Audrey Hepburn
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Norman Vincent Peale
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Horace Mann
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Steve Jobs
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Wolfgang Pauli
I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.
Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
T. S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Edward Teller
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Nelson Mandela
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Herman Melville
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Kim Yong Jim
The key is to have a pessimism of the intellect, but an optimism of the will.
Nikola Tesla
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Werner Heisenberg
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
Ken Robinson
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.
Stephen Hawking
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Alan Wilson Watts
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We must preserve our right to think and differ.
Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great idea.
Robert Sapolsky
An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.
John Archibald Wheeler
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Marie Curie
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Hiller the Elder
If not us, who? If not now, when?
Steve Jobs
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Jane Austen
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.
Sydney Brenner
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
René Descartes
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Albert Einstein
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Steve Jobs
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Carl Sagan
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
