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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham, both are certain they are the real American.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
May every young scientist remember…and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Where there are two PhDs in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
