top of page

"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."

Vannevar Bush, American Scientist

Men, Aspirations, Will

19

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."

Exlpore more Men quotes

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Men, Time, Doctrine, Fiction

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Men, Heart, Honor, Opinions

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Men, Consequences, Fools

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Men, Danger, First, Revolution

"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

Mae West, American Actress

Men, Women, Right, Wrong

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Men, Mind, Stress

"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Men, Honor, Will

"Strong women only marry weak men."

Bette Davis, American Actress

Explore more quotes by Vannevar Bush

"To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise."

"A belief may be larger than a fact."

"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability."

"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."

"Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission."

"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."

bottom of page