Humorous Sayings
5,479 sayings found from the Modern era
I need physics more than friends.
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
Genius sees the answer before the question.
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amusement. It is the essence of his being.
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that the wa…
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science.
Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.
We know too much for one man to know too much.
When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.
Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.