5andadime Quotes & Sayings

Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always.
-Stephen Dedalus- — James Joyce

The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world need not worry those who are persuaded that the main significances of our environment are of a more spiritual character. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly. — Roone Arledge

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up. — Mandy Moore

Life is a wondrous phenomenon. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The trouble with you, I think, is you are still too dependent on others. You expect too much from outside you and demand too little of yourself. You hope everything will be made smooth and easy for you by someone else. Well, it's coming to the point where you are old enough, and have been around enough, to see that this will get you exactly nowhere. You will be what you make yourself and you have got to do that job absolutely alone and on your own, whether you're in school or holding down a job. — Eugene O'Neill

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States. — Tiny Rowland

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert. — Leonard Susskind