Quotes

[PhysBrain]

In response to impalaplaya's request on the Q&A board, I thought I post a couple of interesting quotes that I've come across.

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession that what has already been said is still not enough.
-- Eugene Delacroix

Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of the mind that nourish science.
-- Jaques-Lucien Monod

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
-- Voltaire

I probably have more quotes lying about somewhere. If I find any more, I'll post them here.

[SpaceGirl2028]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein

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

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
-Maxwell Planck

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
-Stephen Hawking

"...space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space."
— Christa McAuliffe

"A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do that."
Gordon L. Glegg

"NASA turns dreams into realities and makes science fiction into fact"
Daniel S. Goldin

[budcamp]

"I, as with all men, could remake the entire world! If I could just stop watching TV and playing computer games."
B. Camp A.D. 2002