Food & Drink Sayings

350 sayings found from 350 authors

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

— Antoine Lavoisier 1789
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The surface of any sphere is four times its greatest circle.

— Archimedes c. 250 BCE
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The greatest pleasure and the greatest knowledge is to understand why everything is as it is.

— Leonardo da Vinci c. 1490-1519
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The telephone will be a great convenience to business men, but it will never be used by the general public.

— Alexander Graham Bell c. 1876-1880
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The greatest value of our experiments has been their negative results.

— Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) 1901
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The creative scientist has to be a man of faith. He must have faith in his results, and in the laws of nature.

— Max Planck Early 20th century
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The great challenge of quantum theory is not to understand how it works, but to accept that it works.

— Niels Bohr Mid 20th century
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The greatest American art form is the comic strip.

— Erwin Schrodinger Unknown
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A human being is a machine for converting food into thoughts.

— Alan Turing Circa 1940s
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The greatest joy is to understand how nature works.

— Richard Feynman 1981
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The price of skepticism is the occasional loss of a great idea.

— Carl Sagan 1995
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Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the great forces of human nature.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson 2012
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We have a responsibility to care for our planet and every creature on it.

— Jane Goodall 2016
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The greatest danger is not in failure, but in succeeding too easily.

— Grace Hopper 1970s
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

— John von Neumann 1966 (posthumously published)
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We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what to do with it was a moral problem for the world, not for us.

— Wernher von Braun 1960
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The library at Alexandria is the greatest treasure in the world.

— Eratosthenes c. 240 BCE
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The knowledge of the cause of things is a great part of philosophy.

— Robert Boyle 1661
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I drink to the man who can make a better whiskey than I can.

— Abraham Lincoln 1850s-1860s (approx)
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The greatest danger to American freedom is a highly centralized government.

— Thomas Jefferson Unknown (approx. late 18th/early 19th century)
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