Quote #14711
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Quote #8546
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. – Hercules Furens
Quote #1836
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Quote #3381
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Quote #6835
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of...
Quote #9197
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.
Quote #20623
Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
Quote #6601
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
Quote #7536
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold...
Quote #21357
Do not pursue what is illusory – property and position all that is gained...