We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Genius is patience.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
What goes up must come down.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Quotes about Isaac Newton
Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
If love ruled on Earth, all laws were expendable.
Nature is a letter written by God for humanity.
To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.
Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.
I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.
Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.
This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.
Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.
Philosophy is basically thinking about thinking. Which sounds like a waste of time, because it is.
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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.
Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.
God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.
Donald Tusk (about German soldiers helping with floodings in Poland) - September 2024
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