Science quotes and life mottos:
About Science
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge” (Einstein)
- “The eternal mystery of the universe is its comprehensibility” (Einstein)
- “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” (Einstein)
- “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” (T.S. Eliot)
- “Scientists die when they stop publishing” (CS)
- “To the Philosopher, the Physician, the Meteorologist, and the Chemist, there is perhaps no subject more attractive than that of Ozone” (Cornelius Benjamin Fox. In: Ozone and Antozone; 1873)
About life
- “The purpose of life is creation;
it finds its utmost expression in the creation of a new life…” (CS) - “Nothing more temporal than the permanent…” (CS)
- “If something has been achieved before, even by just one person, it means it’s humanly feasible. So, do not hesitate, make it your target…” (CS)
- “If something has never been achieved before …be the first!” (CS)
- “We are the sum of our experiences”(CS)
- “We are the average of the people we choose to exchange with” (CS)
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been”(George Eliot)
- “Comedy = Tragedy + Time” (Mark Twain ?)
- “The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- “When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back“ (Alexander the Great)
- “No one more ungrateful than the benefited” (Callimachus / Heraclitus)
- Gordian Knot? “Whatever is unsolvable is cuttable” (Alexander the Great, )
To Whom It May Concern…
- “Μηδενί δίκην δικάσης, πριν αμφοίν μύθον ακούσης” (Φωκυλίδηs o Μιλήσιος // Πλάτων)
“Judge nobody, unless you listen to both sides” (Fokylides from Miletus // Plato) - In life, “there are things you can change …and things you cannot change…” (CS)
(You can change the world! …you cannot change your parents…) - “Ιmmer höher musst du steigen, Ιmmer weiter musst du schauen” (Goethe)
“Climb ever-higher, stare ever-farther“ (Goethe) - I have a dream” (Martin Luther King); “I have a hope” (CS)