QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Louisa May Alcott, RUSSELL BAKER, THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, Ron Darian, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, PETER WILLIAM ATKINS, Victor Hugo, Goodman Ace.

• “Is it not meningitis?”
  – “Little Women” author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
  Alcott, incidentally, did not die of meningitis, but rather mercury poisoning from an earlier treatment for typhoid fever.
  
  
• I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour ...and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.”
  –RUSSELL BAKER
  
  

• "Think Tank Will Promote Thinking"
  -Washington (D.C.) Post headline
  
  
• There Is An Island Of Opportunity In The Middle of Every Difficulty. Miss That, Though, And You're Pretty Much Doomed.
  -unknown but you can beleive it
  
  
• The chessboard is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
  –THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, ENGLISH BIOLOGIST (1825-95)
  
  
• Ants can carry 20 times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving and you need help carrying a potato chip across town.
  –Ron Darian
  
  
• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
  –Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate physicist (1879-1955)
  
  
• I would rather be vaguely right, than precisely wrong.
  -unknown
  
  
• The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
  -unknown
  
  
• The ideas of economists . . . are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.
  -unknown
  
  
• I do not know which makes a man more conservative--to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
  -unknown
  
  
• I do not understand how universal bankruptcy can do any good or bring us nearer to prosperity.
  -unknown
  
  
• To the economists--who are the trustees, not of civilization, but of the possibility of civilization.
  -unknown
  
  
• The great enemy of the Truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and realistic.
  —John F. Kennedy
  
  
• A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming the countryside. Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.
  –PETER WILLIAM ATKINS, AN ENGLISH THEORETICAL CHEMIST
  
  
• I see black light. -French writer and statesman Victor Hugo, last words (1802-1885)
  
  
• A rule of thumb in the matter of medical advice is to take everything any doctor says with a grain of aspirin
  –Goodman Ace
  
  

 

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