Humorous Sayings

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy.

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

No, I certainly do not believe in this superstition. But you know, they say that it does bring luck even if you don't believe in it!

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

By the way, Professor, you know that paper in which you say those quantities are analogous... Did you know they're proportional?

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

This new form of communication could have some utility.

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.