Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

Isaac Davis: You certainly fooled me. [crosstalk] Mary Wilke: What do you mean? Isaac Davis: I mean, I was shocked. 'cause that's not what - this is not what I expected. Mary Wilke: What did you expect? Isaac Davis: I don't know. You said you, you kn...

Manhattan

Isaac: She said she wanted to break up with me before the surgery, 'cause she couldn't handle it. I'm about to lose my eyesight and SHE can't handle it. I kept saying "always" to her, you know, like always. And she kept talking over me and not saying...

The Fault in Our Stars

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Walter Gilbert

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

Isaac Davis: I give the whole thing... four weeks. That's it. Mary Wilke: I, I can't plan that far in advance. Isaac Davis: You can't plan four weeks in advance? Mary Wilke: No! Isaac Davis: What kind of foresight is that?

Manhattan

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

Walter Gilbert

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Cory Doctorow

Isaac Davis: You honestly think that I tried to run you over? Connie: You just happened to hit the gas as I walked in front of the car? Isaac Davis: Did I do it on purpose? Jill: Well, what would Freud say? Isaac Davis: Freud would say I really wante...

Manhattan

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

Walter Gilbert

I haven't had a date in 26 years.

Tim Gunn

Dispassion doesn't mean to no longer feel the passions, but to no longer accept them.

The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

Isaac Davis: It's an interesting group of people, your friends are. Mary Wilke: I know. Isaac Davis: Like the cast of a Fellini movie.

Manhattan

Isaac Davis: [after reading his ex-wife's book about their relationship] [to his ex-wife] Isaac Davis: I came here to strangle you!

Manhattan

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and...

Paul Davies

I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

Kary Mullis

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascr...

Seth Shostak

Luisa Rey: You seem nervous. Do I make you nervous, Isaac? Isaac Sachs: No, I-I'm cool. [She hands him a cigarette. He takes a puff and chokes on it]

Cloud Atlas

Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.

Tim Gunn

For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a child, I have been fascinated by science fiction. My all-time favorite is 'The Foundation Trilogy,' by Isaac Asimov.

Michio Kaku