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Quotes by English Authors
"One man is as good as another until he has written a book."
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."
"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."
"You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks."
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
"Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time."
"I believe that in the end the truth will conquer."
"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."
"But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective."
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
"I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15."
"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."
"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it."
"And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that."
"I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment."
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action."
"Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion."
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