Wells Quotes - Page 12

• To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Knowledge, Science, Expression

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “A tribute to Professor I.I. Rabi on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia University”

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• Usted cree en el Dios que juega a los dados, y yo en la ley y el orden completos en un mundo que existe objetivamente, y que yo, de una manera salvajemente especulativa, estoy intentando captar. ... Ni siquiera el gran éxito inicial de la teoría cuántica me hace creer en el juego fundamental de los dados, aunque soy muy consciente de que nuestros colegas más jóvenes interpretan esto como una consecuencia de la senilidad. Sin duda llegará el día en que veremos de quién era la actitud instintiva correcta.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Attitude, Believe

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• I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Believe, Science

  The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II C. Darwin to Asa Gray May 22nd [1860] (p. 105)

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• Si he expuesto correctamente el caso de la ciencia, el lector habrá reconocido que la ciencia moderna hace mucho más que exigir que se la deje en posesión sin perturbaciones de lo que el teólogo y el metafísico se complacen en llamar su "campo legítimo". Afirma que toda la gama de fenómenos, tanto mentales como físicos -el universo entero- es su campo. Afirma que el método científico es la única puerta de acceso a toda la región del conocimiento.

  Karl Pearson

  Knowledge, Science, Doe

  Karl Pearson (2007). "La gramática de la ciencia", p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.]

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Science, Order, Iowa

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). "LOS PEORES AÑOS DE NUESTRAS VIDAS", Pantheon

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• [David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?]
  Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Drs, Good Ideas

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• It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Views, Ideas

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Race, Ideas

  H.L. Mencken (2013). "Minority Report", p.20, Knopf

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• Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

  Carly Fiorina

  Running, Business, Opportunity

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• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  Adam Clarke

  Heart, Faithful Servants, Honor

  Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.5

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• Life is the art of being well deceived.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Deceived Us, Deception

  William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

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• Debemos respetar los derechos y las propiedades de nuestros semejantes. Y luego aprender a jugar el juego de la vida, así como el juego del atletismo, de acuerdo con las reglas de la sociedad. Si puedes tomar eso y ponerlo en práctica en la comunidad en la que vives, entonces, para mí, has ganado el mayor campeonato.

  Jesse Owens

  Games, Play, Rights

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• No me importa qué asignatura se enseñe, con tal de que se enseñe bien.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teaching, Care

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• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  Elías Canetti

  Men, Lice, Add

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• Los solitarios, si los atrapas, merecen la pena. No se embotan por el exceso de contacto humano, ni son indiferentes o se centran en tu entrepierna mientras parlotean sobre sí mismos, los solitarios son curiosos, vigilantes, llenos de sorpresas. No se aferran. Separados dondequiera que vayan, despiertos o dormidos, brillan con la iridiscencia de las cosas ocultas que rara vez se ven.

  Anneli Rufus

  Estar solo, Soledad, Solitario

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• The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Grieving, Opposites, Addiction

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• When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Opposites, Names

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). "Escritos escogidos de Jean Genet", Ecco Pr

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• My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Views, Opinion, Thinking Flexibly

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Reyes, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Retirement, Memories

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• He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

  Tomás de Kempis

  Deeds, Doe, God Love

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• Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

  León Trotsky

  Distance, Two, Violence

  Leon Trotsky (1967). “Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence”, New York : Stein and Day

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• One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

  Robert Collier

  Caballo, Mudanza, Dos

  Robert Collier (1971). “Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential”

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• In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Joy, Rewards, Action

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• No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

  Corra May Harris

  Inspirational, Tombstone, Dollars

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