Showing posts with label Thomas Henry Huxley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Henry Huxley. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Quote (#551)

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Anonymous

"I don't give a damn for a man that
can only spell a word one way."
- Mark Twain

Education is the instruction of the
intellect in the laws of the nature.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Opportunity: A good chance that always
looks bigger going than coming.
- Anonymous

"We love but once, for once only are
we perfectly equipped for loving."
- Cyril Connolly

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Quotes

Try to learn something about everything
and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley

You probably wouldn't worry about what
people think of you if you could know
how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller

I believe that a scientist looking
at nonscientific problems is just
as dumb as the next guy.
- Richard Feynman

Freedom is not worth having if it does
not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a
human brain being controlled remotely, then it could
be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
- John Alejandro King

Lawyers spend a great deal of
their time shoveling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Quotes

"If at first you don't succeed,
failure may be your style."
- Quentin Crisp

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed,
and to have my senses put in order."
- John Burroughs

"All truth, in the long run, is
only common sense clarified."
- Thomas Huxley

"To be is to do."
- Immanuel Kant

"Only stupid questions create wealth."
- Gary Hamel

"The supernatural is the
natural not yet understood."
- Elbert Hubbard

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The limits of my language
mean the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying
of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas H. Huxley

"Autumn is a second spring
when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus


"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System,
it is now possible to travel from coast
to coast without seeing anything."
- Charles Kuralt

"Never have more children
than you have car windows."
- Erma Bombeck