All Quotes

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power . Essex's Device”

“Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. For knowledge itself is power .”

“Meditationes Sacræ [ Sacred Meditations ] (1597), "De Hæresibus" [Of Heresies]”

“Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates.”

“It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech (…) that are the true ends of knowledge (…), but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, of man to the sovereignty and power, for whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by their true names, he shall again command them. Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603), in Works , Vol. I, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819), Vol. 2, p. 133”

“Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation. Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603), in Works , Vol. 1, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819), Vol. 2, p. 133”

“Aristotle (…) a mere bond”

“Lucid intervals and happy pauses. History of King Henry VII , III”

“Nil terribile nisi ipse timor. Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“If for example I had some idea, which as it turned out would be quite wrong, was going off of the tangent, Watson would tell me in no uncertain terms this was nonsense, and vice”

“The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966, p. 10.”

“And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.”

“Unlike you and your colleagues I have formed the opinion that there is much substance to Jensen's arguments. In brief I think it likely that more than half the difference between the average I.Q. of American whites and Negroes is due to genetic reasons, and will not be eliminated by any foreseeable change in the environment. Moreover I think the social consequences of this are likely to be rather serious unless steps are taken to recognize the situation. 22 February 1971”

“I wasn't aware of Chargaff's rules when he said them, but the effect on me was quite electric because I realized immediately that if you had this sort of scheme that John Griffith was proposing, of adenine being paired with thymine, and guanine being paired with cytosine, then you should get Chargaff's rules. I was very excited, but I didn't actually tell Chargaff because it was something I was doing with John Griffith. ... This was very exciting, and we thought "ah ha!" and we realized”

“Big questions get big answers.”

“I argued that it was important not to place too much reliance on any single piece of experimental evidence. It might turn out to be misleading, as the 5.1 Å reflection undoubtedly was. Jim was a little more brash, stating that no good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong. A theory that did fit all the data would have been "carpentered" to do so and would thus be open to suspicion. (pp. 59”

“Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.”

“Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene.”

“The job of theorists, especially in biology, is to suggest new experiments. A good theory makes not only predictions, but surprising predictions that then turn out to be true.”

“El mayor enemigo de los aragoneses son los aragoneses”

“La casa es la sepultura de las mujeres”

“Me es muy odioso inventar para otro... Fray Manuel (Bayeu) no necesita que otro le invente”

“) who had been ill in her room at Hyde Park. She later supplied the date”

“F.D.R. : His Personal Letters, Early Years (2005), edited by Elliott Roosevelt , p. 6]”

“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm . Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153”

“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation , which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. Speech at the People's Forum in Troy, New York”

“During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby, and forget his troubles. during the Great Depression regarding Shirley Temple cited 16 December 2024 here on BBC article by Aine Quinn”

“The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. Franklin D. Roosevelt , radio address (March 2, 1930); reported in Public Papers of Governor Roosevelt (1930), p. 710.”

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois”