Dan Conner Quotes & Sayings

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. — Michel De Montaigne

They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him. But it is a mistake in my opinion. Ether's opponents refer to the experiments of Maykelson - Morli [Michelson-Morley] who made attempts to detect the Earth's movement relative to the fixed-bed ether. These experiments failed, however it didn't mean the ether's non-existence. I always based as fact the existence of mechanical ether in my works and therefore I could achieve positive success. — Nikola Tesla

There's no remaking reality ... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way. — Philip Roth

In an entirely causal universe, what a person thinks is dictated before that person even exists. — 'Trick Slattery

I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women. — Michael Pryor

Even in the realm of pure mathematics, the mathematician may use any set of symbols he desires within any given region of space-time; he may even go so far as to maintain that any one set of symbols fits the scheme as well as any other, but to erect this method into a philosophy and confuse independence of any one special meaning with independence of all meaning is unjustified and unwarranted. — Fulton J. Sheen

A kiss from my mother made me a painter. — Benjamin West

No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop from the heavens to the horizon, he risks setting it on some scene of desolation. — Geraldine Brooks

It is hard to say YES when you cannot say NO. Say NO a lot more. Mean it. Watch how saying YES then becomes easier. — Gary K. Smith

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed. — Alexander Pope

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

You cannot have it both ways. You cannot apply a definitive conclusion to the favorable outcomes of random chance without also applying a definitive conclusion to the unfavorable outcomes of random chance. If you are not fair in both instances, it means you have just committed a variation of what is known as special pleading. — Michael Vito Tosto

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life. — Jose Saramago