The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
All warfare is based on deception.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -- it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you...
...education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can't have higher-level learning- you can't analyze-without retrieving information.' And you can't retrieve information without putting the information in there in th...
[Ray and Peter have been fired] Dr Ray Stantz: This is a major disgrace. Forget MIT or Stanford now. They wouldn't touch us with a 10-meter cattle prod. Dr. Peter Venkman: You're always so concerned about your reputation. Einstein did his best stuff ...
[Travers gives Ralph a list of people to his handicapped daughter, Jane] Ralph: "Albert Einstein, Van Gogh, Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo" - What is this? P.L. Travers: They all had difficulties. Jane can do anything that anyone else can do, do you understa...
Janet Black: Doctor Manhattan as you know the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction, midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. As of now it stands at four minutes to midnight. Would you agree t...
I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose it didn’t really matter. I even had a theory that time didn’t go in straight line at all. I knew I was no Albert Einstein, but I had the sneaking...
There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.
I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.
All lines are gray in the dark.
Truth starts with a sense.
There's something about a cowboy...
Happiness is a nothingness without completeness.
To live is learn, and to learn is to live. Live. Learn.
Great leaders are teachable leaders.
Critiquing a doer isn’t doing.
