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Quotations Science - Time

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams, 1744-1818, American, Wife of 2nd President of the USA

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Alan Turing, 1912-1954, English, Mathematician

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German American, Physicist

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German American, Physicist

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German American, Physicist

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German American, Physicist

Our nervous system developed for one sole purpose, to maintain our lives and satisfy our needs. All our reflexes serve this purpose. this makes us utterly egotistic. With rare exceptions people are really interested in one thing only: themselves. Everybody, by necessity, is the center of his own universe.

Albert Szent-Györgyi, , ,

Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.

Aldo Leopold, , ,

Man knows much more than he understands.

Alfred Adler, 1870-1937, Austrian, Psychologist

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Alfred Adler, 1870-1937, Austrian, Psychologist

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, American, Author

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Annie Besant, , ,

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Aristotle, 384 - 322 BCE, Greek, Philosopher

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, English, Writer

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, English, Writer

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, Russian American, Writer and Philosopher

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B. F. Skinner, 1904-1990, American, Psychologist

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Baruch Spinoza, , ,

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Baruch Spinoza, , ,

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.