Showing posts with label Paul Dirac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Dirac. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

"Turn your face to the sun and
the shadows fall behind you."
- Charlotte Whitton

"God used beautiful mathematics
in creating the world."
- Paul Dirac

"Be less curious about people
and more curious about ideas."
- Marie Curie


War doesn't determine who's
right - only who's left.
- Bertrand Russell


To avoid criticism do nothing,
say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard


Amor ordinem nescit
Love does not know order.
- St. Jerome

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotaria

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi

True greatness consists in the use of
a powerful understanding to enlighten
oneself and others.
- Voltaire

Taking a new step, uttering a new
word, is what people fear most.
- Dostoyevsky

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the
word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger;
the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
- Richard Nixon

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew
before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac, English physicist in US (1902 - 1984)

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a
difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing
it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?
- Brady