Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Arthur Eddington

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

Anne Hutchinson

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Aaron Klug

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Arthur Kornberg

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

Antony Garrett Lisi

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

Antony Garrett Lisi

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Alan Perlis

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching!

Archibald Thomas Robertson

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

Andrew Wiles

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

Andrew Wiles

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

Andrew Wiles

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Benjamin Banneker

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

Vera Rubin

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

Walther Bothe

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

William Ellery Channing

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

William Ellery Channing

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Whitfield Diffie

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

William A. Dembski

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Walter Gilbert

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

William Law

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine