Memorable Quotes - Page 38

• It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth Is, Grasping, Theory

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.29, Princeton University Press

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• The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Judging, Friendly

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.45, St. Martin's Press

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• But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

  Albert Einstein

  Discovery, Law, Easy

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• Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

  Albert Einstein

  Independent, World, Belief

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, People, Deeds

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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• I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Matter, Facts, Opinion

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.17, Princeton University Press

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• ...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Connections, Subtle

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• Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

  Albert Einstein

  Youth, Foolish, Invention

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• My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

  Albert Einstein

  Feelings, Secret, Longing

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• The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

  Albert Einstein

  Goes On, Way, Corruption

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Trying, May

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

  Albert Einstein

  Fate, Shapes, Dignity

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press

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• Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

  David R. Brower

  Rivers, Luck, Environmental

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• What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

  Hal Boyle

  Rivers, People, Doubt

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• I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lakes, Land, Rivers

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• I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Rivers, America

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• I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

  Steven Morrissey

  Results, Crude, Practicals

  "Papal attraction" by Douglas Coupland, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2006.

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• Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

  Steven Morrissey

  Past, Mcdonalds, Angry

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• If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

  Steven Morrissey

  Desire, Faces, Mets

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• Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.

  Steven Morrissey

  Would Be, Problem, Drink

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• He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

  Steven Morrissey

  Going Away, Faces, Pushing

  Radio interview with Janice Long, 2002.

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• Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

  Steven Morrissey

  Character, Self, Band

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• I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

  Steven Morrissey

  Discarded

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• They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.

  Steven Morrissey

  House, Noel, Bob

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