All Quotes

“By the Book: Julia Alvarez”

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. A little Madness in the Spring”

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes”

“The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare”

“Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.”

“One of my earliest recollections is of a great bazaar which was held in my native city of Manchester, the object of the bazaar being to raise money to relieve the poverty of the newly emancipated negro slaves in the United States.... Young as I was”

“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin , was so great a favourite with my mother that she used it continually as a source of bedtime stories for our fascinated ears. Those stories, told almost fifty years ago, are as fresh in my mind to”

“The rest of the story reveals one of those ghastly blunders which justice not infrequently makes. Although the shooting was done without any intent to kill, the men were tried for murder and three of them were found guilty and hanged.... I was transfixed with horror, and over me there swept the sudden conviction that that hanging was a mistake”

“making home attractive”

“What a pity she wasn't born a lad.”

“The following year (1886) found us living in London, and, as usual, interesting ourselves with labour matters and other social movements. This year was memorable for a great strike of women working in the Bryant and May match factories. I threw myself into this strike with enthusiasm, working with the girls and with some women of prominence, among these the celebrated Mrs. Annie Besant. The strike was a successful one, the girls winning substantial improvements in their working conditions.”

“It was a time of tremendous unrest, of labour agitations, of strikes and lockouts. It was a time also when a most stupid reactionary spirit seemed to take possession of the Government and the authorities. The Salvation Army , the Socialists, the trade”

“The first time I went into the place I was horrified to see little girls seven and eight years old on their knees scrubbing the cold stones of the long corridors ... bronchitis was epidemic among them most of the time ... I found that there were pregnant women in that workhouse, scrubbing floors, doing the hardest kind of work, almost until their babies came into the world ... Of course the babies are very badly protected ... These poor, unprotected mothers and their babies I am sure were potent factors in my education as a militant.”

“Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments. Nobel lecture”

“Where are They? Maybe we are alone in the galaxy after all”

“I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence. When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common. As quoted in Physics Today (October 1994), p. 70.”

“I hope it won't take long. Comment to Eugene Wigner , ten days before his death from cancer, as quoted in The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner (1992), p. 108”

“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. As quoted in Hyperspace (1995) by Michio Kaku”

“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis , then you've made a measurement . If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. As quoted in Nuclear Principles in Engineering (2005) by Tatjana Jevremovic, p. 397”

“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration... Albert Einstein , in the famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt which prompted attention to what eventually became the Manhattan Project . (1939”

“He was simply unable to let things be foggy. Since they always are, this kept him pretty active. Robert Oppenheimer”

“The pursuit of science.”

“As astronomer Carl Sagan thought about what Fermi said [ Fermi paradox ], he began to be alarmed. ...This could only mean that advanced civilizations destroy themselves before they get that far, a viewpoint Sagan published in 1966. Stanley A. Rice, Life of Earth : Portrait of a Beautiful, Middle”

“ἄφοβον ὁ θεός, ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατος, καὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον, τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐεκκαρτέρητον. Don't fear god , Don't worry about death ; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure. (tr. D. S. Hutchinson, 1994 ) The Tetrapharmakos , or "four”

“Δικαιοσύνης καρπὸς μέγιστος ἀταραξία . The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind . Attributed to Epicurus by Clement of Alexandria in Stromata”

“Luxurious food and drinks , in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy . From the esplanade wall at Oenoanda , now in Turkey , as recorded by Diogenes of Oenoanda”

“τὸ φρικωδέστατον οὖν τῶν κακῶν ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς͵ ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν͵ ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν͵ ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ͵ τόθ΄ ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. Death , therefore, the most awful of evils , is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

“Letter to Menoeceus" , as translated in Stoic and Epicurean (1910) by Robert Drew Hicks, p. 169”

“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing. The Essential Epicurus : Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments (1993) edited by Eugene Michael O'Connor, p. 99”

“Οὐκ ἔστιν ἡδέως ζῆν ἄνευ τοῦ φρονίμως καὶ καλῶς καὶ δικαίως, οὐδὲ φρονίμως καὶ καλῶς καὶ δικαίως ἄνευ τοῦ ἡδέως. ὅτῳ δὲ τοῦτο μὴ ὑπάρχει ἐξ οὗ ζῆν φρονίμως, καὶ καλῶς καὶ δικαίως ὑπάρχει, οὐκ ἔστι τοῦτον ἡδέως ζῆν. It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly , and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.”