Wisdom Sayings

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

It took them only an instant to cut off that head, but France may not produce another like it in a century.

Eureka! (I have found it!)

My only merit is that I did not discard the cultures at an early stage.

As soon as I had found the tubercle bacillus, I found it also in the sputum of phthisical patients.

It is a fact well known to many, that persons who have had the Cow Pox, are for ever after secure from the infection of the Small Pox.

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.

Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde / With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed.

If you put everything on the web, then the world will be a better place. You will be a better person.

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

I have made an engine that shall not waste a single particle of steam.

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.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.