Gelehrtenschule Quotes & Sayings

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying. — Stephen Hawking

Stop documenting the moment for a second, he told me. Just be in it. — Emery Lord

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. — Tim Ferriss

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school. — Peter Thiel

They can't stop the signal. — Pierce Brown

Are you crying?"
"Only a little."
"Why?"
"Generalized sadness. — Maggie Stiefvater

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality. — John Henrik Clarke

Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles? — Nicholas Kristof

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money. — Sebastian Pinera

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes - according to the fashion - but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans — Leo Tolstoy

We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know
not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering? — Elisabeth Elliot

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion. — Christopher Hitchens