Inspirational Sayings

523 sayings found from 523 authors

The laboratory worker who is not prepared to meet with occasional failures will never achieve success.

— Alexander Fleming circa 1940s
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I have always striven to verify my observations by every possible means.

— Robert Koch circa 1880s
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The most beautiful part of the human frame is the eye; and yet it is the most liable to disease.

— Edward Jenner c. 1790s
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I am quite confident that the structure is helical, but the exact dimensions are still to be determined.

— Rosalind Franklin 1952
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I hope that no one takes my views seriously.

— James Watson Unspecified
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.

— Francis Crick 1981
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He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twelf-month, and excuse hym atte fulle.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
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The web is not just for looking up information. It's for connecting people, collaborating, and creating new things.

— Tim Berners-Lee 2019
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A point is that which has no part.

— Euclid c. 300 BCE
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If I were to live a hundred years, I would not have enough time to test all the possible combinations.

— Gregor Mendel 1860s
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

— Robert Oppenheimer Unknown
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I am an optimist, because I believe that man is capable of solving his problems.

— Enrico Fermi Unknown
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I believe that the proper dose of vitamin C is 10 grams per day, and that it should be taken in divided doses throughout the day.

— Linus Pauling 1970s
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

— Carl Sagan 1980
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I am a creature of impulse, and I cannot resist the temptation of a new idea.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley Approx. early 1800s
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If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel with it.

— John Keats 1817
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth 1800
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

— Langston Hughes 1949
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

— James Baldwin 1961
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My life goal is to be a source of wonder and curiosity for others. If I can achieve that, I've done my job.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson 2015
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