Quotes

If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.
-- Julian Assange

You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert

Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
-- Richard Feynman

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
-- Paul Erdös

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
-- Richard Feynman

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
-- Richard Feynman

The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
-- William Gibson

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
-- Bertrand Russell

Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-- Albert Einstein

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
-- Blaise Pascal

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
-- Thomas J. Watson

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
-- Albert Einstein

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way'
-- Grace Hopper

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.
-- Richard Feynman (The Character of Physical Law)