Great - Quotes
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible. As a result those who hunger for both intellectual and religious truth will never acquire both in full measure.
We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ?
It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing.
The thought of death ought to be a lifelong occupation for every man. But this would be too great a stress for the human psyche. We have to live as if we were immortal.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
This law of friendship gave a man the right to demand great things from his neighbor, and those who obeyed this law were bound together by stronger ties than any ties of kinship.
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Even a great mathematician is almost always unknown to the public. His "adventures" are usually so confined to the interior of his skull that only another mathematician cares to read about them.