But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

Mehmet Murat ildan

If everything, everything were known, statistical estimates would be unnecessary. The science of probability gives mathematical expression to our ignorance, not to our wisdom.

Samuel R. Delany

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Terence

I want you forever, not just for tonight.

Sylvain Reynard

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being

Morris Joseph

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain,

Adam Lindsay Gordon

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

Dean Kamen

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

Cato The Elder

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

John F. Kennedy

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Laura Linney