“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.&#...
“Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.”Henry Fielding English dramatist...
“One man’s folly is another man’s wife.”Helen Rowland (1876 – 1950)
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”Galileo Galilei Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 – 1642)
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance” US essayist & ...
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.”Samuel Johnson, (attributed) English author, critic, &...
“God help those who do not help themselves.”Wilson Mizner US screenwriter (1876 – 1933)
“No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”Henry Adams US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 – 1918)
“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979 US politician...
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.”Anonymous
“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”Bill Cosby US comedian & television actor (1937 – )
“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?”Philip G. Hamerton, “The Intellectual Life&#...
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”Albert Einstein, (attributed) US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent.”Thomas Neill
“A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.”Peter McArthur
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”A. A. Milne English juvenile author (1882 – 1956)
“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”Richard Feynman US educator & physicist (1918 – 1988)
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 19...
“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”Aeschylus Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC)
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”Cullen Hightower
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)
“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.”Thomas A. Edison US inventor (1847 – 1931)
“If you cannot convince them, confuse them.”Harry S Truman 33rd president of US (1884 – 1972)
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”Edith Wharton US novelist (1862 – 1937)
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (185...
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”John Wanamaker US department store merchant (1838 – 1922)
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”Frank Herbert US science fiction novelist (1920 – 1986)
“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. ThereR...
“Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.”Franklin P. Adams US journalist (1881 – 1960)
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”Poul Anderson US science fiction author (1926 &#...
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