Quotes of: Tolstoy Keyword

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Robert M. Hutchins

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

Robert M. Hutchins

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Stephen Hawking

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Stephen Hawking

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Stephen Hawking

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

Stephen Hawking

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Stephen Hawking

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

Stephen Hawking

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [ ( , December 12, 2004)]

Stephen Hawking

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Stephen Hawking

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

Tea Obreht

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Lynn Abbey

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

Lars Peter Hansen

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Mary Lyon

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Rudy Rucker

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

Lynne Cheney

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Daniel Keys Moran

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warner