All Sayings

245 sayings found from the Modern era from 245 authors

I have been as good a friend to you as you have been to me. I don't care a snap for your laws. I have got the power, and I'll use it.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt 1860s
Power & Leadership

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

— Mark Twain 1897
Educational

She did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

— Jane Austen 1811
Wisdom

Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last.

— Joseph Smith 1843
Nature & World

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

— Edgar Allan Poe 1849
Love & Relationships

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

— Nikola Tesla 1934
Wisdom

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur 1854
Wisdom

The important thing is to know how to take a hint, to seize upon the suggestion, however small, and to extract its full value.

— Michael Faraday Mid 19th Century (approx.)
Wisdom

The only way of discovering the extent of the laws of nature is to try to transcend them.

— James Clerk Maxwell 1871
Educational

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

— Philip K. Dick 1978
Wisdom

The telephone may be used to talk to the dead, and the dead may be used to talk to the living.

— Alexander Graham Bell c. 1910s
Life & Death

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

— Thomas Edison 1910
Wisdom

The chemical elements are the children of the sun.

— Dmitri Mendeleev Undated, often attributed in historical accounts
Wisdom

Not only is the Universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we *can* imagine.

— Werner Heisenberg Undated (likely post-1927)
Art & Creativity

The highest purpose of a man is to serve humanity.

— Max Planck Unknown
Inspirational

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

— Niels Bohr Approx. 1920s-1930s
Educational

If we were to take the wave function to be a complete description of reality, then the living and dead cat would indeed be equally real.

— Erwin Schrodinger 1935
Justice & Rights

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

— Marie Curie 1923
Educational

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

— Richard Feynman 1981
Wisdom

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

— Alexander Fleming 1929
Power & Leadership
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