Quote (#535)

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827),
to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

"If everything is under control,
you are going too slow."
- Mario Andretti

"We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- Harry Morris Warner (1881-1958),
co-founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927

"Be lions roaring through
the forests of knowledge."
- Bahá'í Scriptures

"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them
with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of
waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them
you will reach your destiny."
- Carl Schurz (1829-1906)