Quotes Update

Today's Quotes:

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

Mary Catherine Bateson


The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Richard Livingstone


There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Frank Herbert, Dune


Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Ovid


We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius


Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Edgar Allan Poe


All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses


For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

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