Everything Quotes

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Genius is patience.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.