Favourite Quotes
*** The greatest secret in life is not process of discovery- but a process of creation! You are not discovering yourself, but creatin yourself a new! Therefore: seek not to find out who you are! Seek to determine who you want to be
*** Allein wieviel und mit welcher Richtigkeit wuerden wir wohl denken, wenn wir nicht gleichsam in Gemeinschaft mit anderen, denen wir unsere und die uns ihre Gedanken mitteilen, daechten. (Immanuel Kant)
*** Ueberall entsteht die Revolution durch die Ungleichheit (Aristoteles: Politik, 1302 a 26)
*** Genius is one percent inspiration, ninty-nine percent perspiration (Thomas Edison)
*** Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume..., I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine... [B]ut I look with confidence to the future, -to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality (Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, II 295-96).
*** ...a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and new generation grows up that is familiar with it (Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and other papers, 33-34).
*** I never once made a discovery- I simply start where the last man left off (Thomas Edison)
*** Jedes Problem, das ich geloest hatte, wurde zu einer Regel, mit deren Hilfe spaeter weitere Probleme geloest werden konnten (Rene Descartes)
*** David Hilbert auf die Frage was aus einem seiner Mathematik Studenten geworden sei: Er hatte nicht genug Phantasie, er ist Dichter geworden (David Hilbert)
*** I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all—Depth beyond depth was revealed to me—the Byss and the Abyss. I saw, as one might see the transit of Venus—or even the Lord Mayor's Show, a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly how it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable: and how the one step involved all the others. It was like politics. But it was after dinner and I let it go... (Winston Churchill, My Early life: 1874–1904)
*** ...a scientist would rather use someone else's toothbrush than another scientist's nomenclature (Murray Gell-Mann, 1995).
*** It is truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable (Rene Descartes)
*** Some men see things as they are and ask why- I dream things that never were and ask: why not? (JFK)
*** With or without religions is it easy for good people to do good things and for evil people to do evil things. However, for good people to do bad things, religions and believes are necesarry (unkown)
*** A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
*** Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butter-flies?" Instead, they demand: "How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money dies his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him" (The Little Prince, Antoine de Staint-Exupery)
*** The ideas of economists and political philosophers both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. (John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, ch. 24)
*** Economic growth occurs whenever people take resources and rearrange them in ways that make them more valuable. A useful metaphor for production in an economy comes from the kitchen. To create valuable final products, we mix inexpensive ingredients together according to a recipe.(Paul Romer)
*** Der Kapitalismus basiert auf der merkwürdigen Überzeugung, dass widerwärtige Menschen aus widerwärtigen Motiven irgendwie für das allgemeine Wohl sorgen werden. (John Maynard Keynes)
*** There are only 10 kinds of people: those who think digital, and those how do not! (someone who knows to count in binary)
*** Es geht ja nicht um mich- sondern ums grosse Ganze (Julia O.)
*** Was mich nicht umbringt- macht mich bloss haerter (F. Nietzsche)
*** It takes many kinds of people to make a world (unkown)
*** He who saves one life- saves the universe (jewish saying)
*** Cogito ergo sum (Rene Descartes- ...its deeper than I fist thought...)
*** Todo pasa y todo queda,pero lo nuestro es pasar, pasar haciendo caminos, caminos sobre el mar. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante no hay camino sino estelas en la mar... Caminante no hay cami no- se hace camino al andar! (Antonio Machado)
*** I have not failed, I have just dicovered 10,000 ways that won't work (Thoms Edison)
*** If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe (Abraham Lincoln)
*** The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man (George Bernard Shaw)
*** “What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?” “About six inches to the mile.” “Only six inches!” exclaimed Mein Herr. “We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!” “Have you used it much?” I enquired. “It has never been spread out, yet,” said Mein Herr: “the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well…” (Lewis Carroll)
*** We are stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep (W. Shakespeare)
*** Love your neighbour as yourself, because you are your neighbour. Just an illusion lets you believe your neighbour is somebody different from yourself (indian President Radhakrishnan)
*** Wenn das Gehirn des Menschen so einfach waere dass wir es verstehen koennten, dann waeren wir so dumm dass wir es doch nicht verstehen wuerden (Immanuel Kant)
*** Der freie Mensch steckt sich seine Ziele selber. Diese Ziele werden durch die Gleichheit in der Freiheit, der Beruecksichtigung der Freiheit der Anderen, zur allgemeinen Freiheit, welche sich durch die Gesetze verwirklichen (K.A. Schachtschneider)
*** Auch eine kleine Kerze kann in einem dunklen Raum viel Licht machen (S. Franze)
*** It is more of a business to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things (Michel de Montaigne)
*** We are what we repetedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit (Aristotele)
*** Wenn zwei Menschen immer wieder die gleichen Ansichten haben ist einer von Ihnen ueberfluessig (Winston Churchill)
*** Der Mensch kann zwar tuen was er will, er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Schopenhauer ueber die Unfreiheit des Willens)
*** Sofie, entweder lebst Du in einem wunderbarem Universum auf einem winzigem Fussel von einem Planeten in einer von Hunderten von Millarden Galaxien - oder Du bist einfach nur eine Handvoll elektromagnetischer Impulse im Bewusstsein des Majors (Sofies Welt; Jostein Gaarders)
*** Wenn die Geschichte der Menschheit auch ihre eigene war, war sie (Sofie) in gewisser Weise viele tausend Jahre alt (Sofies Welt; Jostein Gaarders)
*** Handle immer nach der Maxime als dass dein Handeln zum allgemeinem Gesetz werden kann (Immanuel Kant) --- Was Du nicht willst was man dir tu, das fueg auch keinem andren zu --- Liebe deinen Naechsten wie dich selbst --- (kathegorischer Imperativ)
*** THERE ARE NO DREAMERS- NO NAIVE PEOPLE: THERE IS JUST FEAR AND THE FORCE OF HABIT (F. Nietzsche)
