Wisdom Sayings

You can't have a hypothesis unless you have some facts. And I haven't got any facts yet.

The gene for stupidity will be found within 10 years.

The origin of life is a scientific problem.

I have been treated as a heretic in my own time, but truth will prevail.

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin.

Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll never get anything done.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

The only way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

I have no respect for the world, nor for what it thinks of me.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—with a rose and a myrtle tree.

The Child is father of the Man.

I, too, sing America. I, too, am America.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

There was a time when man had a closer communion with the natural world, but now we have become so separated. We have lost our sense of wonder.

The more I think, the more I feel that it is the one great thing to do.

My father always told me that I should try to make my hobby my profession. That's what I did.

I wish they'd simply accept me as I am.

I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?