1011 Quotes & Sayings

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it. — Niels Bohr

To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of traditional cultures were to initiate the youth into a simpler society, a more homogenous culture than ours. As well, their interest lay not in the individuation of the person but in the integration of the unformed person into the collective definition of tribal masculinity. Still, take away such psychically charged images of identity, take away the wisdom of the elders, take away the community of men, and one has the modern world. — James Hollis

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence. — Henri Poincare

There are some hundred billion (1011) galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars. — Carl Sagan

We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry ... We teach Chemistry. — Ira Remsen

Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself. — Fan Bingbing