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"I used to think that the brain was
the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this."
- Emo Phillips

"When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide
Web.... Now even my cat has its own page."
- Bill Clinton

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"The problems that exist in the world
today cannot be solved by the level
of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein

"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution,
and I don't know what can be done to fix it.
This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
- Kurt Vonnegut

Latine loqui coactus sum
- I have this compulsion to speak Latin

Favorite Quotes

Two paradoxes are better than one;
they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller

"A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five."
- Groucho Marx

Imagination is more important than knowledge,
for knowledge is limited while imagination
embraces the entire world.
- Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C Clarke

"Never laugh at live dragons."
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

"In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night,
No Evil Shall Escape My Sight
Let Those Who Worship Evil's Might
Beware My Power, Green Lantern's Light!"
- DC Comics: The Green Lantern's Oath

Favorite Quotes

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust,
we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned
in the distance by an invisible player.
- Albert Einstein

Jack Napier: Have you ever danced with
the devil in the pale moonlight?
- Batman (1989)

The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious; It is the source of all
true art and science
- Albert Einstein

St Jerome - the patron saint of librarians and
scholars. St. Jerome is probably the correct
saint to pray to when your computer seems to
have evaporated a 25,000-word manuscript.
- Unknown

Spock: To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.
Gillian: Whoever said the human race was logical?
- Star Trek - The Voyage Home

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Favorite Quotes

Beast: Head’s up people!! We got ourselves a spatial
anomaly that’d make Captain Picard’s head spin!!
- Uncanny X-men # 345

Jean: I must confess, infuriating and arrogant as gambit can be.. those, eyes, that grin, that body.. it takes a girl’s breath away.
Cyke: oh really? When the next opportunity presents itself.. remind me to drop a truck on him.
Prof: Cyclops
Cyke: A big truck.
Prof: Cyclops!
Cyke: A really big truck
Prof: CYCLOPS!!
Beast: Not to worry professor. While you were away o’l fearless leader here mastered the art.. of deapan humor.
Cyke: Keep calling me that furball and I’ll show you “deadpan”.
- Uncanny X-men # 322

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old
problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination
and marks real advance in science."
- Albert Einstein

We are what we pretend to be, so we
must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007 ), Mother Night

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is
because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature
and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
- Max Planck

Look for the ridiculous in everything
and you will find it.
- Jules Renard

Quotaria - Favorites

Kilgore Trout
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

"Come not between the dragon, and his wrath."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

The future is much like the present, only longer.
- Dan Quisenberry

Neither fire nor wind,
birth nor death can
erase our good deeds.
- Buddha

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman.
Believing what he read made him mad."
- George Bernard Shaw

The ideas that have lighted my way
have been kindness, beauty and truth
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - Albert Einstein

I am a firm believer in the people. If given
the truth, they can be depended upon to meet
any national crisis. The great point is to
bring them the real facts.
- Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is
false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

"To punish me for my contempt
for authority, fate made me
an authority myself."
- Albert Einstein

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion.
But I do not doubt that the lion belongs
to it even though he cannot at once reveal
himself because of his enormous size.
- Albert Einstein

It is a scale of proportions which makes
the bad difficult and the good easy.
- Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons
World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought
with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge
- Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
- Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
- Albert Einstein

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever
going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so
important a biological phenomenon as first love?
- Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.
I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - Albert Einstein

If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work
is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person
who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes,
except the person who made it.
- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds
- Albert Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it
would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein

God is subtle but he is not malicious.
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - Albert Einstein

If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The only reason for time is so that
everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein

One thing I have learned in a long life:
All our science, measured against reality,
is primitive and childlike - and yet it is
the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that
a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough
- Albert Einstein

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its
solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or
experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative
imagination and marks real advances in science.
- Albert Einstein

The supreme goal of all theory is to make
the irreducible basic elements as simple
and as few as possible without having to
surrender the adequate representation of
a single datum of experience.
- Albert Einstein

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between
our politics and our equations. But to me our equations
are far more important, for politics are only a matter
of present concern. A mathematical equation stands
forever.
- Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and
not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just
that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - Albert Einstein

It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods
have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity
of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs
more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe,
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the
rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man
does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices
but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
- Albert Einstein

"If the facts don't fit the
theory, change the facts."
- Albert Einstein

Quotes

Scotty: Diplomats! The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.
- Star Trek TOS, "Taste of Armageddon

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes
to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce

Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
- Ambrose Bierce

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning
a revenge that is worth while.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotes - Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems
like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it
seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about
the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

"I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details."
- Albert Einstein

I could burn my fingers that I wrote that first
letter to Roosevelt. (Comment after the bombing
of Hiroshima, regarding his letter to Roosevelt
warning of the possibility of the development
of a nuclear weapon.)
- Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein

Innovation is not the product of logical
thought, even though the final product is
tied to a logical structure.
Albert Einstein

Quotaria - Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of
prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- Albert Einstein

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
- Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning
- Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created
a new problem. It has merely made more urgent
the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - Albert Einstein

On quantum theory I use up more
brain grease than on relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Everything that is really great and inspiring is
created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein

It is strange to be
known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt
in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Equations are more important to me,
because politics is for the present,
but an equation is something for eternity.
- Albert Einstein

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - Albert Einstein

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a
nation, not until we respect ourselves, can
we gain the esteem of others, or rather only
then will it come of its own accord
- Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods
- Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality
- Albert Einstein

What really interests me is whether God had
any choice in the creation of the world
- Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein