Alexandre Koyre Quotes & Sayings

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine. — Neil Armstrong

I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, "Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you ... " It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish. — Mickey Rourke

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so. — Elizabeth Gaskell

People that don't know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug addict. Here I am fighting for something good, and the guy is fighting for something bad, in my point of view. I can't agree with that, what he represents. Nothing to do with his jiu-jitsu, his school. If you want to do something like that, do it in private. Keep it to yourself. — Royce Gracie

It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright. — Tom Stoppard

The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science-that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange. — Alexandre Koyre

What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and to replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, a new concept of science-and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all. — Alexandre Koyre

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe. — Mahatma Gandhi