Ludwik Rajchman Quotes & Sayings

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings! — Thomas Brooks

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Make your fellow men know by your actions in the days when you can reach them and help them, you appreciate their real worth. It will solve every problem of living. — Curt Brown

Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you. — Diana Gabaldon

When I was a boy, I went to war searching for glory. I didn't find it.
I came here, thinking I'd find glory if I built a ranching empire or a thriving town.
Instead I discovered that I didn't even know what glory was, not until you smiled at me for the first time with no fear in your eyes ...
A hundred years from now, everything I've worked so hard to build will be nothing more than dust blowing in the wind, but if I can spend my life loving you, I'll die a wealthy man, a contented man.
-Dallas to Dee — Lorraine Heath

The sciences that purport to treat of human things
the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings
treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them. — Laura Riding

Mrs. Turton says when something happens that no one can explain, it means you have bumped up against the edge of human knowledge. And that is when you need science. Science is the process for finding the explanations that no one else can give you. — Ali Benjamin

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of. — Edward Hirsch

So many things to see, people to do. — Neil Gaiman