Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.
You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.
God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.
Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find difficult to identify and articulate. It is interesting to me to work through questions that arise in this way.
The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression
Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.
In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.
In the Vatican, if you don't get something new done quickly you may not get it done at all.
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.