Today Quotes
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Martin Luther King Jr.
Because the women are watching.T. E. Lawrence, ...when asked, Why do men go to war?
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.Archimedes, (ca. 235 BC)
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteur
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.Max Frisch
It is said that power corrupts, but actually itDavid Brin, on power and corruption
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.Ernest Rutheford
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.Ernest Rutheford
"There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true," he added, "that seems to be all that need concern me."Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature