All Quotes

“El concepto de Dios emana del reconocimiento de las debilidades del hombre”

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect . A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne”

“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. As quoted in The 48 Laws of Power (2000) by Robert Greene, p. 33”

“The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience...”

“Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street...”

“Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil....”

“As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long.”

“It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite. Thoughts on Art and Life , by Leonardo da Vinci ,”

“Fa vini potenti e assai, … e ‘l vino vale el più uno soldo il boccale e la libbra della vitella un soldo e ‘l sale 10 dinari, e ‘l simile il burro, ed è la loro libbra 30 once, e l’ova un soldo la soldata. ( Modern Italian ) He makes powerful and very strong wines, … and the wine is worth more than a penny per jug and the pound of veal a penny and the salt 10 denarii, and so is the butter, and their pound is 30 ounces, and the eggs a penny.”

“At once two things came to mind: fear and desire: fear of the threatening dark cave, desire to see if there was anything miraculous within it.”

“truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. ( Ancient Italian ) You can find good taverns from mile to mile.”

“The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old. Instructions to Sir John Tenniel c.1864; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood , The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130”

“You have no mind to be unkind,”

“The `Why?' cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and who see no divinity in a child's smile, would read such words in vain: while for any one that has ever loved one true child, no words are needed. For he will have known the awe that falls on one in the presence of a spirit fresh from GOD's hands, on whom no shadow of sin, and but the outermost fringe of the shadow of sorrow, has yet fallen: he will have felt the bitter contrast between the haunting selfishness that spoils his best deeds and the life that is but an overflowing love”

“To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author. Inscribed in Mrs. Lorina Liddell's copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground ; quoted by Edward Wakeling”

“I charm in vain; for never again, All keenly as my glance I bend, Will Memory, goddess coy, Embody for my joy Departed days, nor let me gaze On thee, my fairy friend! "To my Child”

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics”

“And at last we've got to the end of this ideal racecourse! Now that you accept A and B and C and D , of course you accept Z .”

“But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust. To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train”

“Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 421”

“As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations ; but I will come the next day. Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 422”

“A substance showing resonance between two or more valence”

“Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.”

“We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins , nucleic acids , polysaccharides , and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry , involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine. Nobel Lecture (11 December 1954).”

“We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve international disputes by the application of man's power of reason in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man. We must solve them by arbitration , negotiation, and the development of international law , the making of international agreements that will do justice to all nations and to all peoples and will benefit all nations and to all people. Now is the time to start. Debating Edward Teller , in The Nuclear Bomb Tests...Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED”

“Planck ’s constant and the quantum theory that is built around it are of extreme importance for chemistry”

“The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used”

“The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war . Nobel Lecture for The Nobel Peace Prize 1962 (11 December 1963).”

“Everyone should know that the " war on cancer " is largely a fraud, and that the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”

“It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million or 40 million people because of a dispute between two nations who are running things, or decisions made by the people who really are running things. It no longer makes sense. Nobody wins. Nobody benefits from destructive war of this sort and there is all of this human suffering.”