"Back in My Day, We Had Nine Planets" and Other Favorite Quotations
This week is a bit slow on news, so I'll post some of my favorite quotations. Some are deep. Others not so much...
"Back in my day, we had nine planets."
"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
- Aesop
"Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you."
- St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits (aka "God's Marines")
"The meaning of life is to find your gift... The purpose of life is to give it away."
- Pablo Picasso
"The great tragedy of Science -- The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
- Niels Bohr
"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."
- Arnold H. Glasow
"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
- Hippocrates
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves... And wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
- Plato
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
- Aldous Huxley
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
- James Madison
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
- George E. P. Box
"Everything is theoretically impossible... Until it is done."
- Robert A. Heinlein
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
- Ernest Rutherford
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton
"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
- Richard P. Feynman
"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
"The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers."
- Paul Dirac
"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
- Henri Poincare
"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
- David Hilbert, Mathematician
"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
- Brian Greene
"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
"The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in."
- Nassim Taleb
"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense. For it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations."
- Nikola Tesla
"Nature is the art of God."
- Dante Alighieri
"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."
- Max Planck
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."
- Edwin P. Hubble
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
- Wernher von Braun
"Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world."
- Louis Pasteur
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered... The point is to discover them."
- Galileo Galilei
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective."
- Edward Teller
"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success."
- Max Born
"The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises."
- Charles H. Townes
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"Back in my day, we had nine planets."
"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
- Aesop
"Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you."
- St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits (aka "God's Marines")
"The meaning of life is to find your gift... The purpose of life is to give it away."
- Pablo Picasso
"The great tragedy of Science -- The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
- Niels Bohr
"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."
- Arnold H. Glasow
"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
- Hippocrates
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves... And wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
- Plato
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
- Aldous Huxley
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
- James Madison
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
- George E. P. Box
"Everything is theoretically impossible... Until it is done."
- Robert A. Heinlein
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
- Ernest Rutherford
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton
"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
- Richard P. Feynman
"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
"The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers."
- Paul Dirac
"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
- Henri Poincare
"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
- David Hilbert, Mathematician
"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
- Brian Greene
"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
"The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in."
- Nassim Taleb
"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense. For it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations."
- Nikola Tesla
"Nature is the art of God."
- Dante Alighieri
"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."
- Max Planck
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."
- Edwin P. Hubble
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
- Wernher von Braun
"Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world."
- Louis Pasteur
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered... The point is to discover them."
- Galileo Galilei
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective."
- Edward Teller
"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success."
- Max Born
"The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises."
- Charles H. Townes
AstroMart News Archive:
http://www.astromart.com/news/search.asp?search=.+
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