Quotes
1 A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire
2 Life is just one damn relatedness after another. -- Julian Huxley
3 The big money is not in the buying and selling… but in the waiting. -- Jesse Livermore
4 Politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. -- Albert Einstein
5 The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. -- Albert Einstein
6 A scientific theory should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein
7 When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
8 Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. -- Ashley Montagu
9 Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. -- Andre Gide
10 Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. -- Leon Lederman.
11 You must have models and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness. -- Charles Munger
12 Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
13 Funeral by funeral, science makes progress. -- Paul Samuelson
14 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. -- Niels Bohr
15 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
16 If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France
17 To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake
18 Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
19 But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -- Carl Sagan
20 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
21 Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. -- Plato
22 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -- Norman Cousins
23 Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. -- Edward Abbey
24 The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -- Henri Bergson
25 Worse than being blind, is to see and have no vision. -- Helen Keller
26 When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
27 There are two classes of forecasters: Those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know. -- John Kenneth Galbraith.
28 I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. -- Voltaire
29 One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
30 What you do is of little significance. But it is very important that you do it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
31 It has nothing to do with defending our country, except to make it worth defending. -- Robert Wilson
32 To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. -- Confucius
33 If I were forced to choose between my country and my friend, I hope I would be brave enough to choose my friend. -- E.M. Forster
34 I want you to remember that no one ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
35 There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book -- Bill Gross
36 Never fool yourself, and remember that you are the easiest person to fool -- Richard P. Feynman
37 A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price. -- Charles Munger
38 More important than the will to win is the will to prepare. -- Charles Munger
39 Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. -- Albert Einstein
40 Whenever we propse a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it. -- Karl Popper