Quotes

"It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening."

— H.G. Wells

"The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe."

— John Archibald Wheeler

"Everything that is possible demands to exist."

— Gottfried Leibniz

"You are the universe observing itself through a keyhole of time—your entire existence a single breath in eternity's lungs."

"The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."

— Erwin Schrödinger

"What is miraculous is all around us."

"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."

— Henri Poincaré

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

— Marie Skłodowska-Curie

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."

— Yogi Berra

"Everything should be made as simple as possible but no more simple."

"Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough."

— Arthur C. Clarke

"Time is the wisest counsellor of all."

— Pericles

"Luck favors the prepared mind."

— Louis Pasteur

"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."

— Richard Feynman

"Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself."

— Epictetus

"The only thing that is constant is change."

— Heraclitus

"The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite."

— Werner Heisenberg

"If hard work would lead to success, the donkey would own the farm."

"The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living."

— Cicero

"Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

— Albert Einstein

"The mightiest of all warriors are two - Time and Patience."

— Leo Tolstoy

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

— John F. Kennedy

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

— Isaac Asimov

"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

— Valery Legasov

"In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man."

— Galileo Galilei

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

— Werner Heisenberg

“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Ex nihilo nihil fit." — Nothing comes from nothing.

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

— Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is not a question of what a man knows but what use he can make of what he knows."

— J.G. Holland

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson