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Quotes by Polish Authors
"I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast."
"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
"If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him."
"You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart."
"In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility."
"I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity."
"You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo."
"If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster."
"The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important."
"We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction."
"Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters."
"But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War."
"Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them."
"I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing."
"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."
"The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness."
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."
"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."
"We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience."
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
"The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions."
"We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat."
"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly."
"By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that."
"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."
"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
"The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding."
"I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing."
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