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Above all, do no harm.
Above all, do no harm.
A wise man should ... learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
– Hippocrates (c. 460–400 BCE), Greek physician
Nothing is permanent but change.
Character is destiny.
– Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 500 BCE), Greek philosopher who taught, "You can never step into the same river twice."
The trouble is that the balls go where you throw them.
– Jugglers' saying
GIGO.
– Computer programmers' motto ("Garbage In, Garbage Out").
The simple is the seal of the true.
– Inscription in physics auditorium of the University of Göttingen.
Beauty is the splendor of truth.
– Latin motto, applied instinctively by scientists seeking new truths.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
– Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French chemist and discoverer of vaccinations against smallpox and other diseases. (Cf. ”Luck is the residue of design.” – Branch Rickey, baseball magnate.)
Dare to be naive.
– Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), American engineer who built geodesic domes and coined the phrase "Spaceship Earth"
Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough it's obvious that every idea that you have is not good.
We are not that much smarter than each other.
– Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988), American Nobel-laureate physicist, who demonstrated on national television that frozen O-rings had led to the explosion of space shuttle Challenger
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
– Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), English mathematician and philosopher and co-author with Bertrand Russell of the classic of logic, Principia Mathematica. Imagine a world wherein we viewed political disagreements in this way. It would be a world in which inquiry was regarded as a better game than war.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
– Albert Einstein
Time is God's way of keeping things from happening all at once.
– graffiti
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
– Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), English biologist
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
– H. G. Wells (1866–1946), British writer, from his Outline of History written in 1920
What everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.
– Francis Crick (1916–2004), co-discoverer of the molecular structure of the gene. This remark was directed at believers in "vitalism"—the doctrine that there exists some specific life force which cannot be understood in terms of physics and chemistry—but it has much more general applicability.
Without a theory the facts are silent.
– Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian economist and philosopher
The map is not the territory.
– Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950), Polish-born American philosopher's pithy reminder that representations (e.g., models and theories) should never be confused with reality.
To have a name is to be.
– Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), Polish-born American mathematician known for fractals
I have discovered that all human misery comes only from this, that we are incapable of staying quietly in a room.
There are two equally dangerous extremes—to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.
– Blaise Pascal (1623–62), French mathematician, physicist, philosopher
