Quotes ❝…❞

But there is one question I would like to answer: What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number?

– Warren Sturgis McCulloch

You ask me if an ordinary person–by studying hard–would get to be able to imagine these things like I imagine. Of course. I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There’s no miracle people. It just happens they got interested in this thing, and they learned all this stuff. They’re just people. There’s no talent or special miracle ability to understand quantum mechanics or a miracle ability to imagine electromagnetic fields that comes without practice and reading and learning and study. So if you take an ordinary person who’s willing to devote a great deal of time and study and work and thinking and mathematics, then he’s become a scientist.

– Richard Phillips Feynman

It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.

– Stephen Hawking

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

– Albert Einstein

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

– Rene Descartes

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

– Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

– William James

There is something more important than logic: imagination.

– Alfred Hitchcock

The human face never lies. It is the only map that records all the territories where we have lived.

– Luis Sepúlveda

Learning never exhausts the mind.

– Leonardo da Vinci

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

– Voltaire

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

– Margaret Fuller