Since 1982 I have been collecting aphorisms, short statements which contain some general truth or distilled wisdom. I look for ones which have a positive message or ones which deal with science & technology. If you have a favorite one that you have come across, please send it to me. Thanks! And if you know of the source for any of the "anonymous" ones, please let me know!
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. --Pearl S. Buck
The secret of all inventors is to consider nothing impossible. --Justus von Liebig
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. --Claude Bernard We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. --George Washington Genius is eternal patience. --Michelangelo A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. --Mahatma Gandhi It's a great life if you don't weaken. --John Buchan If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else. -- Yogi Berra My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. -- Peter Drucker
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. -- Anna Freud The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. --Les Brown If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. --Winston Churchill You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. --Thomas J. Watson When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. --Geoffrey F. Abert You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. --Wayne Gretzky To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone. --David Joseph Schwartz How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. --George Washington Carver The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. --Mary Caroline Richards
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. --R. I. Fitzhenry The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. -- Benjamin Disraeli If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change. -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampadusa He's no failure. He's not dead yet! -- William Lloyd George Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. -- Jerry Garcia When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. --Albert Einstein Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- George S. Patton The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. --Orison Swett Marden If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. --Erica Jong The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. --William Henry Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. -- David Lloyd George Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. -- Henri Poincaire We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Samson's time. --Richard Nixon Of course, that was long ago, but at the time it seemed like the present. --P.Steiner You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. --Joan Baez Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3 -- not even for very large values of 2.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito. --African Proverb
I plan to live forever or die trying. --Spider Robinson
Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. --Richard Feynman
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. --Baltasar Gracian
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. --Samuel Smiles
You can either ask me to do something OR tell me how you want it done, but not both. --Anonymous
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. --Joan Baez
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. --Tom Hopkins
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. --Napoleon Hill
One test is worth a thousand expert opinions. --Bill Nye the Science Guy
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. --John Stuart Mill
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. --Scott Hamilton
If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. --Anatole France
Never argue with idiots. They will bring you down to their level, then overwhelm you with their experience. --Dave Johnson
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. --Helen Keller
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. --Italian proverb
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. --Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see farther.
It doesn't depend on size, or a cow would catch a rabbit. --Pennsylvania German proverb
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. --e.e. cummings
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused.
I wondered why someone didn't do something about the situation-- then I remembered that I am someone.
A cynic smells the flowers and looks for the casket. --John Duling
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. --Auntie Mame
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. --Ursula K. LeGuin
It's not impossible if it happens. --Bill Yates
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. --Charles Babbage
"The major role of the teacher is to light fires of interest,not deliver a certain amount of material. Students are co-producers of their education." --Curt Teinmann, Baldrige Award Program Director
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
DIATRIBE: A statement made by someone else with which you disagree. If you agreed with it, it would be an eloquent masterpiece. --Walter H. Schramm
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Useless laws weaken the necessary ones.
Some pursue happiness. Others create it.
EVERYBODY dies sometime - the difference is what you do 'till then. --Pastor Richard A. Hughen, Sr.
A man is not old until his regrets outnumber his dreams. --John Barrymore
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
The harder I work, the luckier I get. --Sam Goldwyn
The way to do things is to begin. --Horace Greeley
In old age, one should do something monumental. --Xiao Qian (translated James Joyce's Ulysses into Chinese)
Too stiff, easily broken. Too soft, easily crashed -- Chinese proverb
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. --Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. --Bernard Berenson
Science is science fiction where the only boundary for your imagination is reality. --Goran Hellekant
"I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, 'til I realized yeah, look what's teling me that." -- Emo Phillips
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes. --Ancient sled dog proverb
Don't tell me it's impossible until after I've already done it! --Tina Joy Pitt
It has laughingly been said that calculating the dissociation energy of a heavy molecule is like weighing the the captain of a ship by determining the difference in displacement of his ship when he is, or is not, on board! --Charles Coulson
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. -- Steve Dahl
If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts. -- Scott Fahlman
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. -- Gene Fowler
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. -- Robert Heilbroner
More than iron, more than lead, more than gold, I need electricity. I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber. I need it for my dreams. -- Racter (a program that sometimes writes poetry)
If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon. -- Scott Fahlman, with apologies to Harry S Truman
Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy
The plural of anecdote is not data! --Frank Kotsonis
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. --Jim Rohn
Fiction has to be believable, but in reality, anything can happen. --Michael O'Brien
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being. -- Hans Selye
The ultimate in computer security is when the user cannot use the computer anymore.
Knowledge accumulates in universities because freshmen bring in a little and seniors rarely take any away. --Acedemic Saying
Nature uses as little as possible of anything. --Kepler
There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in "Anthem" by Leonard Cohen, 1992
"I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think." --W. Pauli
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato
It's a good thing we don't have to understand the theory in order to enjoy the benefits of the biochemistry! Enjoy life ... --Bruce Bush
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. --Thomas Pynchon
Take two managers and give to each the same number of laborers and let those laborers be equal in all respects. Let both managers rise equally early, go equally late to rest, be equally active, sober, and industrious, and yet, in the course of the year, one of them, without pushing the hands that are under him more than the other, shall have performed infinitely more work. --George Washington
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. -- Biologist P. B. Medawar
I think the world is run by C students. --Al McGuire
Organic Chemistry: The practice of transmuting vile substances into publications. --The Last Word-The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary
Superstition brings bad luck --Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C.
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments--there are consequences.
Laws of Serendipity: 1. In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something. 2. If you wish to make an improved product, you must already be engaged in making an inferior one.
There are no uninteresting numbers, since the first uninteresting number would be interesting. --C.E. Linderholm, "Mathematics Made Difficult"
Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn. --M. Scott Peck
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. --Ron Shepard
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled" -- Feynman
It was the kind of place where a state legislator could actually say, "If the English language was good enough for our Lord Jesus Christ, it's good enough for our school children." --John Perry Barlow
"It's not unusual to learn more in the 5 minutes between classes than one learns during the 55 minutes of official class time" --Howard Lambert
God is real, unless declared integer.
There is no such thing as a poverty of time, rather there is a poverty of being able to say "NO".
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. [The time may come when we will look back on these days and laugh] --Virgil
..life itself represents a nonequilibrium condition. -- J. F. Pankow
What's let go of provides space for what's to become.
Being happy takes practice and patience and discipline. It's not an easy challenge, but when you're through you'll know you've done your work and done it well. You'll be among the strong, the proud and the few. Be all that you can be. Join the happy. --Howard Lambert
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. --Konrad Adenauer
Physics is the universe's operating system. --Steven R. Garman
Good, fast, cheap: choose any two.
Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable inevitable. --George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. -- A.J. Liebling
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed, for no other reason than because they are not already common. -- John Locke
We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation. -- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Mem. Soc. d'Arcueil, 2, 207 (1808)
REilly's CAutioNary Truths:
--Patrick Reilly
That's no good! Crystals don't wriggle, and if it doesn't wriggle, it's not biology. --A.V. Hill
Talking about music is like making love through mail. --Luciano Pavarotti
If clothes make the man, then naked men should have little or no impact on society. --Mark Twain
Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand, wrong answers. --Grossman's Misquote of H. L. Mencken
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. --H.L. Mencken
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you have. --President Gerald Ford
Theory guides, experiment decides. -- Izaak M. Kolthoff
People are adventurous in direct proportion to their shortness of memory. -- Ned Gillette
Illiterate? Write for FREE help! -- Galen Hekhuis
Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
There are no facts, only interpretations. -- Nietzsche
Look at me! Look at me! Look at me now! It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how! --Dr. Seuss
If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we will find something new. --Voltaire
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. --Edith Wharton
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you're doomed if you don't try. --Beverly Sills
Life itself is the proper binge. --Julia Child
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. --Colette
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. --Francis Bacon
We are the hero of our own story. --Mary McCarthy
You grow up the day you have your first laugh at yourself. --Ethel Barrymore
I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!! --Alan Yasutovich
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but also more useful, than a life spent doing nothing. --H.J. Lambert
Non esistono uomini cattivi, se sono cucinati bene. (Bad men do not exist, if they are cooked well) --Stefano Benni
Joyce Galas's Collection of Laws:
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. -- Slovenian proverb
Happiness = Reality - Expectations --Click & Clack
Don't just eat a hamburger, eat the hell out of it! Remember, each little chloroplast is a living cell! Spread your omnivery around! Eat a little of everything so that no species is singled out by your ravening, ape-like apetite. Bananas! Banana slugs! Cats! Dogs! Fish! Artichokes! Granola! Graneries! Grandmother! Eat them all! --Steve Lamont
When their backsides look good enough to slap, there's nothing more to do. --Peter Paul Rubens, artist
Murphy's law on sex: Love is a matter of chemistry; sex is a matter of physics.
To know recursion, you must first know recursion.
96.37% of all statistics are made up.
Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. --Lou Holtz
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you can have, the better it is--unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far. --Alice Neel
Oh for heavens sakes, Smithers, this is brain surgery, not rocket science . . . Now hand me that ice cream scoop. -- Montgomery Burns
I am an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac. I stay up all night wondering if there is a dog. --Charlie Byrne
Ice hockey combines the best features of figure skating and World War II. --Alfred Hitchcock
For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery. You get a free ride on the novelty of the medium. There are no previous masters to surpass and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin. --Stewart Brand
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important. --Eugene McCarthy
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. --Oscar Wilde
When it's steamboat time, you steam. -- Mark Twain
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. --Gore Vidal
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in pratice maintain, the equality of all men. --Ignazio Stone
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. --English Proverb
To err is human - it just feels divine. --Mae West
You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. -- Steven Wright
It's a widely accepted fact that if your parents didn't have any children, you won't either.
Don't be a sexist, broads hate that.
When all else fails, Immortality may always be assured by spectacular error. --John Kenneth Galbraith
If at first you don't succeed, try a bigger hammer.
Paranoid schizophrenics outnumber their enemies at least two to one.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former -- Einstein
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
Velilind's Law's of Experimentation: 1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
Truth is not always agreeable or intuitively obvious, but it usually prevails in spite of our opinions. --David Barrett
I may be in debt for the rest of my life, but I get to wear this cool white lab coat all the time. --Dave Smith
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Intimidation has not turned back one transcendent thought or one valuable idea from going where it was destined to go, and doing what it was destined to do. It may be temporarily delayed, or its species may revert only to propagate in a related form, but brute force (the world's greatest idiot) has never kept the germ from its divine order. A black eye never reformed a drunkard, a czar never stopped a free thought. --Charles Ives
The man who can't spell a word more than one way lacks creativity. --W.C. Fields
If this is coffee, bring me some tea. If this is tea, bring me some coffee. -Abraham Lincoln
I never trust a man who looks like he walks down Lovers Lane holding his own hand. --Fred Allen
To be understood is to be forgiven. --Pat Carr
Ask. People know. How the world works is not a secret. --Gerard van der Leun
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. --Senegalese proverb
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. --Paul Fix
"You're soaking in it, Madge" -- ancient euro-american proverb
I'm the biggest Star Trek fan ever... I like the new series too, although it bothers me that in the 23rd century, they STILL haven't found a cure for baldness. -- Kevin Pollak
Many people use statistics the way a drunk uses a streetlight--to hold them up rather than for illumination.
We are faced with insurmountable opportunities. --Yogi Berra
Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalts
So little of what might happen does happen. --Salvador Dali
The axon doesn't think. It just ax. --George Bishop
The great obstacle is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. --Daniel Boorstin
Never interrupt when you are being flattered. --Daniel Boorstin
Collection of Simborg's philosophies:
Science is a model. It helps us understand in simplifed terms a physical universe that is simply too complex for the human mind. All models by nature are simpfications that fail at some point. Scientific models fail at many and various points. Science is not the TRUTH. If you want ultimate TRUTH go to religion. We scientists don't deal in that stuff. --Andy Holder
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
People are DNA's way of making more DNA.
Softness without strength is weakness. Strength without softness is meanness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. --Lily Tomlin
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts such as falling in love at first sight. --Rudyard Kipling
...but at that time I did not yet know the frightening anesthetic power of company papers, their capacity to hobble, douse, and dull every leap of intuition and every spark of talent. --Primo Levi
Everything is incredible, if you can skin off the crust of obviousness our habit puts on it. --Aldous Huxley
The past is solid, future is liquid. --J.-L. Aubert
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. --Rudyard Kipling
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, for if you hit a man with a plowshare, he's going to know he's been hit.
Eventually, primitive life develops, and then shopping malls. --J. A. Paulos, on evolution
It is my supposition that the Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we CAN imagine. -- J.B.S. Haldane
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. -- Vice President Dan Quayle
So far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. --Jim Melton
Don't tell me WHAT to DO, tell me WHY you think i SHOULD. --Ross Bracco
Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparision. -- Paul Lindner
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. --Sophia Loren
If you feel that you have both feet planted on solid ground, then the university system has failed you. --Robert Goheen
The test and the use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. --Jacques Barzen
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
...given the choice, think like a biologist and not a statistician. --Russell F. Doolittle
The fascination of a growing science lies in the work of the pioneers at the very borderland of the unknown, but to reach this frontier one must pass over well travelled roads; of these one of the safest and surest is the broad highway of thermodynamics. --G. N. Lewis and M. Randall
G. K. Chesterton (on beer): If an angel out of heaven Brings you other things to drink, Thank him for his kind attentions, Go and pour them down the sink.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. --Sherlock Holmes
A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. "Well," said Red Jacket, "I suppose you have all there is."
This floor holds us up by a fight with agencies that go to pull us down. The whole world is a series of balanced antagonisms. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. --Martin Luther
We have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time; but we have allowed into its architecture tenuous and eternal interstices of unreason to let us understand that it is false. --Jorge Luis Borges
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he had done. --Cardinal Newman
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know --Lucretius
ALICE
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all. --Shel Silverstein
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale; diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. --Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. --Laurence Sterne
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. --Douglas MacArthur
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. --Ellen Glasgow
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. --Samuel Lover
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. --Joseph Joubert
It is not the employer who pays wages--he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. --Benjamin Franklin
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working on that talent. --Irving Berlin
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. --T.H. Huxley
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. --Abraham Maslow
The difference between intelligence and education is this: Intelligence will make you a good living. --Charles Kettering
To accuse others for one's misfortunes is a sign of want of education; to accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun; to accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. --Epictetus
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. --G.K. Chesterton
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake but come up and show his line. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. --Thomas Alva Edison
In life, as in chess, forethought wins. --Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Sit, walk, or run, but don't wobble. --Zen
If you tickle the earth with a hoe, she laughs with a harvest. --Douglas Jerrold
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they're blind. --Marston Bates
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. --Albert Einstein
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. --Niels Bohr
You can't make a baby in a month by getting nine women pregnant. --Anonymous researcher
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of heaps of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world. --Max Lerner
If you are waiting for something to turn up, start on your own shirt-sleeves. --Mandarin Garden fortune cookie
I've always thought there's no limit to what you can do in this world if you don't want to get rich or gain credit. --Bill Moyers
Two rules for managing stress: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. It's ALL small stuff.
We should make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert Einstein
...that's where I sense market opportunity--when I hear other people saying "Boy, that's hard to do." --Charlie Jackson
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. --La Rochefoucauld
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. --Marie Curie
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet. He didn't have the nerve to bet on himself the last dollar he has. He would be a blank fool to bet his last dollar on a horse race; but when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. --B.C. Forbes
Textbooks & Heaven only are Ideal Solidity is an imperfect state. Within the cracked and dislocated Real Nonstoichiometric crystals dominate. Stray Atoms sully and precipitate; Strange holes, excitons, wander loose;because of Dangling Bonds, a chemical Substrate Corrodes and catalyzes--surface Flaws Help Epitaxial Growth to fix adsorptive claws. --John Updike
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. --Friedrich von Schiller
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. --Mark Van Doren
The man who has no imagination has no wings. --Muhammad Ali
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. --Earl Wilson
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. --Daniel J. Boorstin
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. --Goethe
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. --Albert Schweitzer
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done remains undone. --Confucius
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who has a question and doesn't ask is a fool forever. --Canadian proverb
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing--to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. --John Keats
In short, one can be too pure, and never make any real practical progress. It remains largely a question of personal taste whether one wishes to try for high accuracy and reliability on very simple systems or rougher, more empirical treatments of larger molecules of greater chemical importance. Both areas need people of optimistic dispositions, capable of continuing despite discouraging obstacles, and both need criticism and constant evaluations. Optimists are often not very self-critical, so it is certain that quantum chemistry will continue for some time to be a subject that evokes controversies. This is regrettable, but at least is an indication that there is life and activity and a certain amount of excitement in the field. --E. Bright Wilson, Jr.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. --Henri Bergson
A plain bar of iron is worth $5.00, but made into horse shoes it is worth $25.00; made into kitchen cutlery it is worth $250.00; made into needles it is worth $3,500.00; and made into balance springs for watches, it is worth $250,000.00. The finer the workmanship, the greater the value.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. --William Hazlitt
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. --William Blake
There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomorrow. --Robert Burdette
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. --C.W. Leadbeater
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. --John Keats
One should be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. --Schopenhayer
Since, therefore, the substance of the mind has been found to be extraordinarily mobile, it must consist of particles exceptionally small and smooth and round. This discovery, my dear fellow, will prove a timely aid to you in many problems. --Lucretius
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. --Joan L. Brannon
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. --De Witt Clinton
The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea. --William Benton
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried. --Frank Tyger
It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life. --Reinhold Niebuhr
In the field of scientific observation chance favors the prepared mind. --Louis Pasteur
Like many of the finest things of life, like happiness and tranquility and fame, the gain that was most precious was not the thing that was sought, but one that came of itself in the search for something else. --Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one. --Laurence Sterne
It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom. --Wilfred Grenfell
Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child, Listen to the DON'TS Listen to the SHOULDN'TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me-- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be. --Shel Silverstein
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. --Caleb C. Colton
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. --P.T. Barnum
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. --Martin Luther King
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood. --Paul Valery
We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. --Aldous Huxley
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. --Paul Goodman
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. --Albert Einstein
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. --George Bernard Shaw
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?...What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?...If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. --Epictetus
I never know whence comes the wind, or whither goes the tide, and though I try to fathom it, my soul is mystified. The lovely puzzlements of life, are not the paltry kind, that will relent to questions, from this poor human mind. And yet I'll always be complelled, to see a nest of breeze, and go a-darting after tides, to set my mind at ease. --"Quests," Charles Doss
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more and all good things will be yours. --Swedish proverb
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education. --John Gardner
Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. --Percy Bysshe Shelley
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. --Japanese Proverb
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. --Arthur Koestler
It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows. --Henry L. Doherty
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. --Malcolm S. Forbes
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. --Will Durant
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through? --C.S. Lewis
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. --Katherine Mansfield
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. --Rabindranath Tagore
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. --Frank Herbert
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. --Elizabeth Bowen
The scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. --Erwin Schrodinger
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. --Samuel Johnson
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down. --Satya Sai Baba
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. --Andre Gide
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. --Alan Watts
To doubt everyhing or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. --Jules Henri Poincare
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. --Jose Ortega y Gasset
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. --Albert Einstein
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of the pervasive energy that animates the electron. --Peter Matthiessen
Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. --Woody Allen
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. --Andre Gide
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. --Eric Hoffer
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. --D.H. Lawrence
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. --Will Durant
To receive everything, one must open one's hand and give. --Taisen Deshimaru
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. --Shunryu Suzuki
"Normal" is just a setting on a washing machine. --Anonymous
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. --Alfred North Whitehead
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. --James Thurber
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. --Alexandre Dumas, fils
Si l'on ne sait pas ce que l'on cherche, l'on ne comprends pas ce que l'on trouve. [If one does not know what one is looking for, one does not know what one has found.] --Claude Bernard
Clay is molded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing...Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not. --Lao Tzu
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. --R. Buckminster Fuller
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. --William James
If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything. --Fred Menger
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. --Nietzsche
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. --Bertrand Russell
It does not usually pay to be distracted by rabbit tracks if you are hunting deer. But if it is getting late in the day, you are hungry and you need something for dinner, a rabbit in the pot may be better than a deer in the woods. --Phil Arnold
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them. --Curtis Grant
I have always known That at last I would Take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today. --Narihira
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans: aim high in hope and work. --D.H. Burnham
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. --Albert Szent-Gyorgi
You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant. --Benjamin Franklin
He should be the owner of the land who rubs it between his hands every spring. --Russian peasant saying
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. --Henrik Ibsen
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. --Thomas Huxley
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --Einstein
If I am a gentleman and you are a gentleman, who will milk the cow? --Irish folk saying
When you get a result that you expect, you have another result; but when you get a result that you don't expect, you have a discovery. --Frank Westheimer
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking abou yesterday all the time. --Charles F. Kettering
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of men who try to. --Howard Mumford Jones
We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children. --Kenyan proverb
If the terrain and the map do not agree, follow the terrain. --Swedish army manual
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. --Alfred North Whitehead
He who stops being better stops being good. --T. J. Watson
Who is to bell the Cat? It is easy to propose impossible remedies. --Aesop
The man who makes the experiment deservedly claims the honor and the reward. --Horace
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? --Pliny the Elder
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. --George Bernard Shaw
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. --Confucius
They who have read about everything are thought to understand everything too, but it is not always so; reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. --William Ellery Channing
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. --Mao Tse-tung
The universe must be infinite in all its paths, for otherwise it would have a limit or boundary, and clearly nothing has a boundary, unless something lies beyond it, to bound and limit it, something visible, beyond which we cannot perceive. But we must confess that there is nothing beyond the sum of things, no extremity, no end or limit. And it makes no difference in which part you are standing: for in whatever place one stands, the universe will stretch out to infinity in all directions. --Lucretius
Pray for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing. --Slovenian proverb
The nail that sticks its head up is the one that gets hit. --Japanese proverb
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call "the real world": to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer. --Karl R. Popper
Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. --Saint Augustine
We often think that when we have completed our study of one, we know all about two, because "two is one and one." We forget that we have still to make a study of "and." --Sir Arthur Eddington
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. --Isaac Newton
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, there is probably more manure over there.
If you give a man a fish, you have fed him for a day. If you teach a man how to fish, you have fed him for the rest of his life. --Kuan-Tzu
It probably is not possible for a scientist to interrogate nature from a wholly disinterested viewpoint. Even if he has no particular axe to grind, he is likely to have a distinctive way of viewing nature. --John Losee
In so far as quantum mechanics is correct, chemical questions are problems in applied mathematics. --Eyring, Walter, & Kimball, 1944
If you wish to understand the fragrance of the rose, or the tenacity of the oak; if you are not satisfied until you know the secret paths by which the sunshine and the air achieve these wonders; if you wish to see the pattern which underlies one large field of human experience and human measurement, then take up chemistry. --C. A. Coulson
Almost all the chemical processes which occur in nature, whether in animal or vegetable organisms, or in the non-living surface of the earth...take place between substances in solution. --W. Ostwald
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-- neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--that is all." --Lewis Carroll
And here I am, for all my lore, The wretched fool I was before. Called Master of Arts, and Doctor to boot, For ten years almost I confute And up and down, wherever it goes I drag my students by the nose-- And see that for all our science and art We can know nothing. It burns my heart. --Faust
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. --P. A. M. Dirac
Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and many accomplishments, owes the fact of his existence to a
"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud. --Lewis Carroll
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever nature leads, or you will learn nothing. --T.H. Huxley
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no one dares criticize it. --Pierre Gallois
There is no more need to learn computer terminology to use a computer than there is to learn the names of your digestive enzymes in order to enjoy a good meal. --Michael Rothenberg
Grant, O God, that we may always be right, for thou knowest we will never change our minds. --Old Scottish Prayer
It is said that one machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine, however, can do the work of one extraordinary man. --Elbert Hubbard
To give is to store for oneself. --Zulu proverb
Those Himalayas of the mind are not so easily possessed. There's more than precipice and storm between you and your Everest. --C. Day Lewis
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. --Jules Verne
All models are wrong. Some are useful. --George E. P. Box
Trust your own judgment, for it is your most reliable counsellor. A man's own mind has sometimes a way of telling him more than seven watchmen posted high on a tower. --Ecclesiasticus 37:13-14
One of the great tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin
An enquiry which proceeds like a monologue, without interruption, is not altogether free from danger. One is too easily tempted into pushing aside thoughts which threaten to break into it, and in exchange one is left with a feeling of uncertainty which in the end one tries to keep down by over-decisiveness. --S. Freud
I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. --William Blake
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. --John Donne
One truly understands only what one can create. --Giambattista Vico
Science is not a technology, a mysterious cult, a mechanical monster. It is an artistic enterprise, stimulated by curiosity and based on faith in the order and beauty of the universe of which man is a part. -- Warren Weaver
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. --Ernest Renan
La theorie c'est bon, mai ca n'empeche pas d'exister (Theory is fine, but it doesn't prevent things from happening) --Jean Martin Charcot
The beginning of success is to be different. The beginning of failure is to be the same.
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate the falsely simple beginning away. --Maimonides, 'A Guide for the Perplexed'
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. --Winston Churchill
The optimist and the pessimist are not only both mistaken but make, in fact, the same mistake; that of allowing emotions to adulterate fact. --C. Northcote Parkinson
A good executive is a person who will share the credit with the person who did all the work.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain; while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. --George Prentice
Such substances as agreeably titilate the senses are composed of smooth round atoms; those that seem bitter and harsh are more tightly compacted of hooked particles... --Lucretius, 55 B.C.
People fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. --Andre Marois
I drank at every vine The last was like the first I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst --Edna St. Vincent Millay
Work ethics: The world is full of willing people--some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. --Robert Frost
We all know that if the muscles of our arms are weak, we can develop them by exercise; and if our memory is weak we can develop it. It is equally possible to develop any other personal qualities if we go about it in the right way; but most people haven't the remotest idea how to go about it. --B.C. Forbes
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. --Alexander Smith
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you must not eat them. --Ed Howe
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. --Pauline Kael
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. --Lord Halifax
More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows. --Spanish proverb
The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't say much. --Germain Glidden
One of the greatest victories you can gain over a man is to beat him at politeness. --Josh Billings
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene. --Michel de Montaigne
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. --Irene Peter
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. --Vauvenargues
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. --Henri Frederic Amiel
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. --Finley Peter Dunne
I take the view, and always have done, that if you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it. --Lord Brabazon
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. --Samuel Butler
Never destroy any aspect of personality, for what you think is the wild branch may be the heart of the tree. --Mrs. Henry George
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. --Walter Bagehot
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting form those that are offered. --La Rochefoucauld
Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade. --Rudyard Kipling
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. --Madame de Stael
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. --J. Robert Oppenheimer
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
--David Viscott
In the end the great truth will have been learned: that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer than the prize (or, rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.”
--Justice Benjamin Cardozo
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