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Bernard Berenson: Life has taught...

Bernard Berenson: Life has taught...

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated but for our...

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Bernard Berenson: A complete life...

Bernard Berenson: A complete life...

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the nonself that there is no self left to...

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Bernard Berenson: German is of...

Bernard Berenson: German is of...

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English,...

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Claude Monet: I would advise...

Claude Monet: I would advise...

I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly ....

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Jeremy Bernstein: [T]he number of...

Jeremy Bernstein: [T]he number of...

[T]he number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. ....

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Gifford Pinchot: Conservation is the...

Gifford Pinchot: Conservation is the...

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common...

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Gifford Pinchot: Unless we practice...

Gifford Pinchot: Unless we practice...

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and...

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Isaac Asimov: Life is pleasant....

Isaac Asimov: Life is pleasant....

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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Orville Wright: The airplane stays...

Orville Wright: The airplane stays...

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

Source: Explaining...

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Piet Hein: Here lies, extinguished...

Piet Hein: Here lies, extinguished...

Here lies, extinguished in his prime,
a victim of modernity:
but yesterday he hadn't time--
and now he has...

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Henri Poincare: Invention consists in...

Henri Poincare: Invention consists in...

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations...

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Alfred North Whitehead: Common sense is...

Alfred North Whitehead: Common sense is...

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: [W]e must believe...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: [W]e must believe...

[W]e must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence,...

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Edmund Hillary: As far as...

Edmund Hillary: As far as...

As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him...

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Joseph Wood Krutch: There is no...

Joseph Wood Krutch: There is no...

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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Joseph Wood Krutch: As machines get...

Joseph Wood Krutch: As machines get...

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

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Joseph Wood Krutch: [A] book ......

Joseph Wood Krutch: [A] book ......

[A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication ... can wait for...

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Max Planck: Ego is the...

Max Planck: Ego is the...

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Source: Where is Science...

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John Tyndall: Life is a...

John Tyndall: Life is a...

Life is a wave which in no two consecutive moments of existence is composed of the same...

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Albert Einstein: A question that...

Albert Einstein: A question that...

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Source: In...

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