The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
Richard Dawkins born 1941
born 1941
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Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
George-Louis Leclerc 1707 - 1788
1707 - 1788
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
1564 - 1642
Attributed
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
John D. Barrow 1952 - 2020
1952 - 2020
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
1934 - 1996
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.
Robert Anton Wilson 1932 - 2007
1932 - 2007
There is no other purgatory but a woman.
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates c. 460 - c. 370 BC
c. 460 - c. 370 BC
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham Maslow 1908 - 1970
1908 - 1970
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?
born 1941
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding 1707 - 1754
1707 - 1754
94% of problems in business are systems driven and only 6% are people driven.
W. Edwards Deming 1900 - 1993
1900 - 1993
Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
1934 - 1996
Cosmos (1980)
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fibre and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Gary Larson born 1950
born 1950
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
Sir William Hamilton 1788 - 1856
1788 - 1856
It is the star-spangled banner; Oh long may it wave Over the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Francis Scott Key 1779 - 1843
From his poem 'Defence of Fort M'Henry' and used as a lyric in the national anthem of the USA : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1779 - 1843
From his poem 'Defence of Fort M'Henry' and used as a lyric in the national anthem of the USA : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Grief is a species of idleness.
Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784
1709 - 1784
You have to know the past to understand the present.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
1934 - 1996
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978)
1952 - 2001
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978)
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
1732 - 1799
Farewell Address (1796)
Empires are synonymous with centralised—if occasionally schematised—hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through—usually—a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society’s information dissemination systems and its lesser—as a rule nominally independent—power systems. In short, it’s all about dominance.
1954 - 2013
The player of games
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
W. H. Auden 1907 - 1973
1907 - 1973