If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
One thing I have learned in a long life: That all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.
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