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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."
"Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."
"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married."
"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place."
"But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it."
"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."
"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."
"Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well."
"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life."
"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."
"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."
"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education."
"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."
"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based."
"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice."
"I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head."
"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning."
"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country."
"It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached."
"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe."
"Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge."
"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."
"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."
"Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us."
"True creativity often starts where language ends."
"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."
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