Quotes
Quotes about Wit
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.
Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.
These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competitionâ in having put forth the best within you
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.
If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.
