Science

Albert Einstein

Science

1879–1955

"carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."

🇺🇸Richard Feynman

Science

1918–1988

"He hated the fact that he participated in the invention of nuclear weapons, and he doubly hated the fact that he had so much fun doing it."

Charles Darwin

Science

1758–1778

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."

🇬🇧Francis Bacon

Literature

empiricism

1909–1992

"Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions."

🇮🇹Galileo Galilei

Science

1564–1642

"PBS Nova Online: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens"

🇫🇷Louis Pasteur

Science

1904–1989

"God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed."

🇬🇧Stephen Hawking

Science

atheism

1942–2018

"On seeing the Enterprise's warp engine while visiting the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (where he would briefly play himself in the 1993 episode Descent, Part I), Hawking smiled and said: I'm working on that."

🇺🇸Carl Sagan

Science

1934–1996

"Evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God."

🇭🇺John von Neumann

Science

1903–1957

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

Erwin Schrödinger

Science

1887–1961

"Some blood transfusion from the East to the West is a must to save Western science from spiritual anaemia."

🇺🇸James Watson

Science

1928–2025

"A Revolution at 50" in The New York Times"

Max Planck

Science

1858–1947

"Max Planck - Encyclopædia Britannica article"

🇬🇧Alan Turing

Science

1912–1954

"In this paper I deal only with automatic machines, and will therefore often omit the prefix ɑ-."

Max Weber

Science

1836–1897

"What interests us here is the assimilative power of the Hindu life order due to its legitimation of social rank."

🇬🇧Richard Dawkins

Science

atheism

b. 1941

"Eugenics was not inspired by Darwin's natural selection but by ancient agricultural ARTIFICIAL selection. Eugenics is UNnatural selection."

🇺🇸Stephen Jay Gould

Science

1941–2002

"Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality."

🇬🇧Freeman Dyson

Science

1923–2020

"Sharing the food is to me more important than arguing about beliefs. Jesus, according to the gospels, thought so too."

🇺🇸Kim Stanley Robinson

Science

b. 1952

"Rituals should have some unpleasantness, or you don’t appreciate them properly."

🇺🇸Warren Farrell

Science

feminism

b. 1943

"When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me."

🇸🇪Emanuel_Swedenborg

Science

1688–1772

"Words of Wisdom An extended range of quotations from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg."

Archimedes

Science

-286–-211

"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"

🇺🇸Charlton Heston

Science

1923–2008

"Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set."

🇧🇷Paulo Coelho

Science

1947–1985

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

🇩🇰Bjarne Stroustrup

Science

b. 1950

"A program that has not been tested does not work."

🇮🇳Ravi Gomatam

Science

1993–2015

"R.Gomatam at the symposium Indo-US Workshop on Systems Engineering, October 26-28, 2009 ."

🇦🇹Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Science

1901–1972

"Cybernetics, based upon the principle of feedback or circular causal trains providing mechanisms for goal-seeking and self-controlling behavior."

🇬🇧C. A. R. Hoare

Science

b. 1934

"Failures are much more fun to hear about afterwards; they are not so funny at the time."

Werner_Heisenberg

Science

1901–1976

"There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality."

🇬🇧Susan Blackmore

Science

b. 1951

"The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi, because I didn’t have an open mind!"

🇺🇸Daniel Levitin

Science

b. 1957

"Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work."

🇺🇸Randolph Bourne

Science

anarchism

1886–1918

"War is the health of the State, wrote Bourne, and in his full realization of what that meant, he recognized the roots of modern totalitarianism years before the psychoanalysis of fascism."

"Dr. Alexander Skutch - Bibliographic notes from Tropical Science Center"

🇬🇧Martin Rees

Science

b. 1942

"When I discover I'm wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?"

🇬🇧William John Macquorn Rankine

Science

1820–1872

"This law , and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics."

🇺🇸William H. Starbuck

Science

b. 1934

"A knowledge-intensive firm may not be information intensive... Knowledge is a stock of expertise, not a flow of information."

🇬🇧E. F. Codd

Science

"The most important motivation for the research work that resulted in the relational model was the objective of providing a sharp and clear boundary between the logical and physical aspects of database management."

🇺🇸John Mearsheimer

Science

b. 1947

"In short, unbalanced bipolar systems are so unstable that they cannot last for any appreciable period of time."

Joseph Priestley

Science

1733–1804

"Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different."

🇺🇸Sam Harris

Science

b. 1967

"We are, even now, killing ourselves over ancient literature. Who would have thought something so tragically absurd could be possible?"