Science

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. - Hendrik Willem van Loon

A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms. - George Wald

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have. - Albert Einstein

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer. - Max Planck

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory. As philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions the theory survives, and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory. - Stephen Hawking

As long as men are free to ask what they must – free to say what they think – free to think what they will – freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. - Galileo Galilei

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. - Edwin Powell Hubble

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver … in the end, the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own. - Bertrand Russell

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened. - Charles Darwin

However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. - Lewis Mumford

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. - Carl Sagan

I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness. - James Bryant Conant

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. - Hugh Walpole

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in. - Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil

In science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it. - Lawrence M Krauss

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. - Paul Dirac

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. - Carl Sagan

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. - Henri Poincaré

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Shadow of the Light

It has been written that, “A glass of wine once lost a kingdom; a nail turned the tide of a mighty battle, and a woman’s smile once destroyed the homes of a million people.” So, It happens that little things have at times changed the course of human events. And a legend also relates that the untiring determination of a tiny spider spinning a web in an old barn gave Robert Bruce of Scotland renewed courage to return to battle and thus succeed in his mission.

But the majority of us are not marked for such historical destinies and the role we play upon the stage of life may make little impression upon the tides of a nation’s progress. Yet who can say how much the little things we do today may deeply affect the tomorrow of someone we may never know?

Greatness does not always mean fame, wealth, or power. Greatness requires more than these trappings. It is that subtle something in the innermost recesses of the self which glows like a ray from an invisible candle shedding the light of illumination into the dark night, and leaving in its wake an unforgettable essence only the heart can comprehend.

- Merle A Allison

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Humorous Quotes

The happiest marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain’t never killed nobody. - Moms Mabley

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert A. Heinlein

Home is where you can say anything you please, because nobody pays any attention to you anyway. - Joe Moore

They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting. - John Green

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction. - Ken Alstad

I meditate. I burn candles. I drink green tea. And I still want to smack some people. - Unknown

You know “that look” women get when they want sex? Me neither. - Steve Martin

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. - Jack Nicholson

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

Sometimes, too much to drink is barely enough. - Mark Twain

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Life Quotes

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life. - Sanskrit Proverb

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. - Phillips Brooks

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful. - Amit Ray

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. - Simone de Beauvoir

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. - Brian Tracy

Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? - Rumi

Every day of your life is a page of your history. - Arabic Proverb

Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel. - Rhonda Byrne

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. - Thomas Carlyle

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. - Robert E. Lee

Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life. - Glynis Nunn

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Quote Worthy

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. - Robert T. Kiyosaki

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for. - Socrates

Sometimes ,you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life. - Unknown

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering. - Amma

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. - Kofi Annan

Do you want to know who you are?  Don’t ask.  Act!  Action will delineate and define you. - Thomas Jefferson

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. - Richard Whately

Never be a prisoner of you past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence. - Unknown

Wickedness disrobes any man of his excellency. - Benjamin Whichcote

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. - Benjamin Franklin

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Loneliness

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. - Alvin Toffler

Don’t feel alone, because there is always someone out there who loves you more than you can imagine. - Anurag Prakash Ray

Friends will keep you sane, love could fill your heart, a lover can warm your bed. But lonely is the soul without a mate. - Unknown

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else. - Joshua Slocum

I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone. - Amy Sedaris

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. - Aldous Huxley

If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Is it really possible to avoid loneliness, or to keep it in control? Surely. The matter is wholly personal. The way to begin is, oddly enough, by learning how to be impersonal, to stop the eternal concern for oneself, in caring more and more for the things of interest outside. For loneliness, though it may seem unselfish, is really a kind of selfishness. It is emphasis of self even while being a depreciation of self. If the lonely people would only stop thinking about themselves they would cease to be lonely. - John Daniel Barry

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs. - Eric Hoffer

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone. - James Alan Gardner

It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Labour in loneliness is irksome. - Mark Twain

Loneliness doesn’t have much to do with where you are. - Unknown

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. - Gao XingJian

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. - Thomas Wolfe

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close proximity with someone who has ceased to communicate. - Germaine Greer

Loneliness is one of the bugbears of mankind. With some people, it is a constant source of unhappiness. They make plans, sometimes exceedingly complex, to keep it at bay. They think that it lies outside. It really lies within their own consciousness. - John Daniel Barry

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. - Janet Fitch

Paraprosdokians

Some days you meet someone and you immediately know you want to spend the rest of your days without them. - Unknown

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot. - Groucho Marx

It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food. - Jarod Kintz

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. - Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde

I didn’t find out what happiness means until I got married… and then it was too late. - Unknown

I wasn’t planning on going for a run today … but those cops came of nowhere. - Unknown

I don’t like people who take drugs, customs men for example. - Mick Miller

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. - Bertolt Brecht

I’d like to help you out. Which way did you come in? - Unknown

Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention. - Bob Marley

If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it. - Unknown

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Happiness

The effects of being charitable to others leads to a measurable increase in happiness. - Myriam Mongrain

The happiest people are the people with the best attitudes, not the best lives. - Bob Lonsberry

The happiness of life, like the light of day, consists not in one brilliant flash, but in a series of mild, serene rays. - Eliza Cook

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. - Colley Cibber

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it. - Laurel K Hamilton

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. - Marcel Pagnol

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. - George Washington

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George Sand

To be happy you must be your own sunshine. - Charles Edward Jerningham

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. - Christopher Paolini

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Quote Worthy

Sometimes, being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. - Octavia Butler

You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. - Yoko Ono

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet. - Steve Maraboli

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. - Christopher Morley

Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. - John Neal

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. - Bob Marley

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

For solitude is sometimes best society, and short retirement urges sweet return. - John Milton

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. - Voltaire

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

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Forgiveness - Quotes

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one. - Robert Brault

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on. - Steve Maraboli

Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace. - Leo Tolstoy

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave. - Ivern Ball

Never forgive an injury or an insult so long as the offending parties have it in their power to make reparation; since, if they are able to do so, and will not, whatever they may pretend to others, they, up to that time, are only laughing at you, and triumphing in secret. If, however, they have not the power to neutralize an impertinence by explanation, or a fraud by restitution, forgive and forget either – as soon as you can. - Charles William Day

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on. - Bill Cosby

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right. - Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Sincere forgiveness isn’t coloured with expectations that the other person apologizes or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time. - Sara Paddison

The freedom to be at peace in our own skins – that’s what forgiveness allows. We relinquish this freedom when we hold onto anger and resentment. Enormous amounts of energy are wasted when we hold back our love, hold onto hate, and harbour acrimonious feelings. The only remedy is letting go, and being willing to forgive. - Naomi Drew

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. - Steve Maraboli

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive and not to forget is like burying the hatchet with the handle sticking out. - Unknown

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. - Robert Muller

True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. - David Ridge

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies. - Voltaire

We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven. - Martha Kilpatrick

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. - Sir. Francis Bacon

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. - Katherine Ponder

You forgive yourself by realizing that nobody can act beyond their level of consciousness. - Eckhart Tolle