Iscience Quotes & Sayings

I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another. — Ilona Andrews

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think? — L. Frank Baum

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up. — Bill Gates

But she never could keep it straight. All the letters, the acronyms, the codes, the colors, changing like musical chairs, every week, every month. Games demons play. It meant nothing to her, except in a charming sort of way, as it had when Naganya wanted to play at interrogation, while the rest of them wanted chess. — Catherynne M Valente

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. — Nam June Paik

If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good. — Joel Greenblatt

And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses (Neh. 4:14). — Douglas Wilson

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force. — Daisaku Ikeda

If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough. — William Redington Hewlett

I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever. — Jack White

Wealth is not often a byproduct of hard work or superior intelligence, but often wealth is a byproduct of a purpose oriented abundant mentality. — Debasish Mridha

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. — Peter Straub