Scientist Quotes

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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