He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing 1912 - 1954
1912 - 1954
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? ‘Natural’ death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful.
George Orwell 1903 - 1950
1903 - 1950
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen 1828 - 1906
1828 - 1906
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
Henry James 1843 - 1916
1843 - 1916
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken 1880 - 1956
1880 - 1956
Perfection is the child of Time.
The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley 1927 - 2002
1927 - 2002
Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g — what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma — to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.
1934 - 1996
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
We are star stuff pondering the stars.
1934 - 1996
paraphrase : Cosmos (1980)
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
1934 - 1996
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Alan Watts 1915 - 1973
1915 - 1973
We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
Walt Disney 1901 - 1966
1901 - 1966
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.
1881 - 1973
Reported by Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso (1964)
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama born 1961
born 1961
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
1872 - 1970
'An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish' (1943), in Unpopular Essays (1950)
Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
Richard Feynman 1918 - 1988
1918 - 1988
We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.
Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life.
1857 - 1924
‘Some Reminiscences’ Oxford dictionary of quotations
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence Darrow 1857 - 1938
1857 - 1938
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 - 1895
1825 - 1895
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle 384 - 322 BC
384 - 322 BC
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
Mandell Creighton 1843 - 1901
1843 - 1901
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell 1903 - 1950
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), part 1, ch. 1: the caption on the posters of Big Brother
1903 - 1950
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), part 1, ch. 1: the caption on the posters of Big Brother