Great - Quotes
The one thing that turns the world from the longing place to a beautiful place... is love. Love and any of its forms. Love gives us hope... Hope for the New Year. That`s what New Year`s Eve is to me. Hope and a great party!
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
I love Christmas. The lights, trees, music, the whole spiritual season makes me feel great.
There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn`t require religion at all.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ?
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.