I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
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.
Isaac Asimov
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar N. Bradley
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Herbert V. Prochnow
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman
All war is deception.
Sun Tzu
If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin Spock
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland
Thursday, September 23, 2010
War Quotes
Time Quotes
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles
The present is a point just passed.
David Russell
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Technology Quotes
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
John Perry Barlow
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
John Perry Barlow
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
John Perry Barlow
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John Perry Barlow
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
John Perry Barlow
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter
Technology has to be invented or adopted.
Jared Diamond
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Bob Dole
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Esther Dyson
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
Freeman Dyson
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Dennis Gabor
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
William Gibson
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
William Gibson
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor Adorno
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher von Braun
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold H. Glasow
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
Andy Grove
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Andy Grove
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan Kay
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Jaron Lanier
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
Jaron Lanier
The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Scott McNealy
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
William Gibson
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
William Gibson
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
William Gibson
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
William Gibson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitchell Kapor
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Tim Berners Lee
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Tim Berners Lee
You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners Lee
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas Sowell
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
Bruce Sterling
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
Meg Whitman
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Ralph Nader
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Lawrence Clark Powell
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. Schumacher
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Carrie P. Snow
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
John Spencer
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
Linus Torvalds
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
Success Quotes
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
Sports Quotes
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Ralph Augustine
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
Charles Barkley
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
Charles Barkley
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Yogi Berra
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Black
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Tommy Bolt
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
Jimmy Connors
All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray
Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
George Deukmejian
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
Nick Faldo
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
Joe Garagiola
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Joe Garagiola
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Joe Garagiola
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
Ben Hogan
I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
Ben Hogan
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan
I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
Ben Hogan
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
Ben Hogan
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
Ben Hogan
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
Ben Hogan
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson
I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
Phil Jackson
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
Phil Jackson
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson
Fans don't boo nobodies.
Reggie Jackson
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Michael Jordan
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger Kahn
Horse racing is animated roulette.
Roger Kahn
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Roger Kahn
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
Roger Kahn
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Tom Landry
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Joe E. Lewis
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
Charley Lau
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Greg LeMond
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
Greg LeMond
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
Vince Lombardi
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player.
Bernie Lincicome
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Wilson Lynd
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
Gary McCord
He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
Gary McCord
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden
I'll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
Jack Nicklaus
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
Jack Nicklaus
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus
What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
Greg Norman
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Grantland Rice
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Michael Phelps
He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.
Nick Price
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
Nick Price
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn
There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Charles Spalding
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Mike Tyson
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth
Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
Peter Ueberroth
The integrity of the game is everything.
Peter Ueberroth
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Lee Trevino
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Harry Vardon
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Bob Verdi
What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
Bob Verdi
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods
Society Quotes
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Omar N. Bradley
It is not a fragrant world.
Raymond Chandler
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
Science Quotes
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
James H. Boren
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
George William Curtis
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. Barrow
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Louis D. Brandeis
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
Erwin Chargaff
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Tom Hanks
Leave the atom alone.
E. Y. Harburg
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Heinrich Heine
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Arnold H. Glasow
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Ashley Montagu
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Howard Nemerov
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
Dave Parnas
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Alvin Toffler
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
James D. Watson
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Pierce