All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“Nature uses as little as possible of anything. As quoted by W. H. Auden , Louis Kronenberger , Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection (1920) p. 98; also by Joseph Silk, The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology”
“Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.”
“We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. As quoted by Carl Sagan Cosmos”
“In Terra inest virtus, quae Lunam del.”
“There is a force in the earth which causes the moon to move. Essay dedicated to the Archduke Ferdinand , as quoted by Max Caspar, Kepler (1993) Sect. II, Ch. 9, p. 110.”
“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. As quoted by Gloria Pierre, (K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication (2005) p. 147.”
“I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven”
“Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. As quoted by Shafique N. Virani, The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) p. 28.”
“The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy,”
“While they denounce as subversive anarchy signs of independent thought, of thinking for themselves on the part of others lest such thought disturb the conditions by which they profit, they think quite literally for themselves, that is of themselves. Human Nature and Conduct (1921) Part 1 Section IV.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI”
“The Need for a New Party”
“Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. The American Background , Freedom and Culture”
“Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail. Democracy and Human Nature , Freedom and Culture”
“This intelligence”
“So we are always esthetically disappointed when the sensuous qualities and the intellectual properties of an object do not coalesce. p. 7”
“Just because emotion is essential to that act of expression which produces a work of art, it is easy for inaccurate analysis to misconceive its mode of operation and conclude that the work of art has emotion for its significant content. One may cry out with joy or even weep upon seeing a friend from whom one has been long separated. The outcome is not an expressive object”
“The determination of the mot juste , of the right incident in the right place, of exquisiteness of proportion, of the precise tone, hue, and shade that helps unify the whole while it defines a part, is accomplished by emotion. Not every emotion, however, can do this work, but only one informed by material that is grasped and gathered. Emotion is informed and carried forward when it is spent indirectly in search for material and in giving it order, not when it is directly expended. p. 73”
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. Undated Letter to a Navy friend ; also mentioned by William Safire in his "On Language" article "Warrior" in the New York Times rubric Magazines (26 August 2007) ; also in A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 88”
“11 ALIVE NATIVE KNOWS POSIT & REEF NAURU ISLAND KENNEDY”
“Where in the hell have you guys been? I've been at this bus stop for a whole week now." Kennedy upon being rescued.”
“Regarding the Republican Party : They follow the Hitler line”
“If more politicians knew poetry , and more poets knew politics , I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956) ; Box 895, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre”
“Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past”
“In the Chinese language , the word " crisis " is composed of two characters, one representing danger and the other, opportunity . Remarks at the United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana (12 April 1959) ; Box 902, Senate Speech Files, Pre”
“Mr. President, Senate Joint Resolution 31, concerning which there has been little, if any, public interest or knowledge, constitutes one of the most far”
“Senators , we hear, must be politicians”
“The way to get along,”
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