Humorous Sayings

Did you make a convert of the obstinate antivaxinist at Lello?

You see by the papers how I'm annoyed by a set of blockheads who write about the imperfection of the cowpox, as a vaccine, without any knowledge scarcely of its phenomena.

...has effectually put a stop to the sneers of those little minded persons who think everything impossible which does not come within the narrow sphere of their own comprehension.

Don't think; try.

It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall soon flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men!

Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

God suffers in the great multitudes whom his sacred word cannot reach.

Religious truth is captive in a small number of manuscript books, which guard the common treasure, instead of diffusing it. Let us break the seal which holds the holy things; give wings to the truth that by means of speech, no longer written at great…

This new form of communication could have some utility.

I am not personally a socialist; I have small faith in any political propaganda; but I do believe that the progress of invention will create a state which will realize most of the present dreams of the socialists.

Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

I need physics more than friends.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.