GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS EDISON | GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS
GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS EDISON

** Never get discouraged if you fail. Learn from it. Keep trying.

** Learn with both your head and hands.

** Not everything of value in life comes from books - experience the world.

** Never stop learning. Read the entire panorama of literature.

1."Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

2. "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

3."There is no substitute for hard work."

4. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

5. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

6. "What you are will show in what you do."

7. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

8. "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

9. "Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."

10. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

11. "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." 12. "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."

GREAT QUOTES OF EUCLID | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF EUCLID

“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.” - Euclid, Euclid's Elements

“There is no Royal Road to Geometry.” - Euclid

“What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.” - Euclid

“Handwriting is a spiritual designing, even though it appears by means of a material instrument.” - Euclid

“1. An 'unit' is that by virtue of which each of the things that exist is called one.

2. A 'number' is a multiple composed of units.” - Euclid, Euclid's Elements

“A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.” - Euclid , Euclid's Elements

GREAT QUOTES OF ARCHIMEDES | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF ARCHIMEDES

“Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.” - Archimedes

“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.” - Archimedes

“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.” - Archimedes

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes

“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.” - Archimedes

“Don't disturb my circles!” - Archimedes

“Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth” - Archimedes

“Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.” - Archimedes

“Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move the Earth.” - Archimedes

“Noli turbare circulos meos!” - archimedes

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I'll move the world” - Archimedes

“Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes” - Archimedes

GREAT QUOTES OF NICOLAUS COPERNICUS | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF COPERNICUS

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. - Nicolaus Copernicus

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth. - Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is written for mathematicians. - Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle. - Nicolaus Copernicus

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. - Nicolaus Copernicus

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. - Nicolaus Copernicus

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. - Nicolaus Copernicus

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. - Nicolaus Copernicus

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. - Nicolaus Copernicus

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Nicolaus Copernicus

GREAT QUOTES OF GALILEO | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF GALILEO

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.” - Galileo Galilei

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” - Galileo

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” - Galileo Galilei

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” - Galileo

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” - Galileo

“Passion is the genesis of genius.” - Galileo Galilei

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” - Galileo Galilei

“Sì perché l'autorità dell'opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le presenti osservazioni spogliano d'autorità i decreti de' passati scrittori, i quali se vedute l'avessero, avrebbono diversamente determinato.

For in the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. Besides, the modern observations deprive all former writers of any authority, since if they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge.” - Galileo Galilei

“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.” - Galileo Galilei

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” - Galileo Galilei

GREAT QUOTES OF NEWTON | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF NEWTON

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” - Isaac Newton

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” - Isaac Newton

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” - Isaac Newton

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy” - Isaac Newton

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.” - Isaac Newton

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” - Isaac Newton

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” - Isaac Newton

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” - Isaac Newton

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” - Isaac Newton

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...

This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.” - Isaac Newton

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.” - Sir Isaac Newton

GREAT QUOTES OF CHARLES DARWIN | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF CHARLES DARWIN

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” - Charles Darwin

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” - Charles Darwin

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” - Charles Darwin

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” - Charles Darwin

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” - Charles Darwin

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.” - Charles Darwin

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” - Charles Darwin

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men” - Charles Darwin

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,

not the most intelligent that survives.

It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” - Charles Darwin

“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality... But I had gradually come by this time, i.e., 1836 to 1839, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow at sign, &c., &c., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.

...By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, (and that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become), that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost uncomprehensible by us, that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, that they differ in many important details, far too important, as it seemed to me, to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitnesses; by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation. The fact that many false religions have spread over large portions of the earth like wild-fire had some weight with me. Beautiful as is the morality of the New Testament, it can be hardly denied that its perfection depends in part on the interpretation which we now put on metaphors and allegories.

But I was very unwilling to give up my belief... Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct. I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished.

And this is a damnable doctrine.” - Charles Darwin

“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.” - Charles Darwin