Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander PopeNew discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Herbert HooverNothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch SpinozaCulture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert CamusIgnorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George EliotWe see the world not as it is, but as we are.
Stephen CoveyScience is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George EliotThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert CamusWe do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PlatoIt seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Terry PratchettI will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William JamesWhen I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.
Jane GoodallAll knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.
Nikola TeslaScience sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.
Kurt VonnegutImaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
John RuskinThey know enough who know how to learn.
Henry AdamsPeople take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.
RihannaListen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.
Kamala HarrisTrying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Elon MuskCreationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac AsimovMystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Neil ArmstrongIs science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
Richard P. FeynmanThere is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich NietzscheI say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David ThoreauDepend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel JohnsonNo one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.
Anthony HopkinsWhat really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Friedrich NietzscheOur treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich NietzscheI have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen HawkingBefore the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich NietzscheI grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
Margaret AtwoodOne science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander PopeOur existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony HopkinsThe more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
Mark TwainDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleThere is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand RussellSome men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.
Amy WinehouseWhere knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin DisraeliIf I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz KafkaA psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Carl JungSometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert EinsteinEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerNow I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie ChanWhen you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.
Thich Nhat HanhWithout stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao TzuNobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice WalkerReligion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher HitchensTo live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob DylanTruth is a pathless land.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl MarxIt is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S. TrumanThe aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
AristotleYou cannot open a book without learning something.
ConfuciusDeath is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry AdamsI like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
Bertrand RussellMan will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston ChurchillI think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Terry Pratchett