Archives - September 2007

For myself I am an optimist --- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes...they're just friends waiting to be made.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Time is how you spend your love.