All Sayings

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.

I am an atheist, a republican, and a lover of mankind.

If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel with it.

The Child is father of the Man.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me.

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

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Chimpanzees are so like us, they have a very human-like capacity for evil.

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.

I am more than ever convinced that the object of the Imagination, as well as of the Reason, is to penetrate into the hidden laws of Nature.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

It is not the eye that sees the light, but the mind that sees the light through the eye.

If a man will not be a fool, he must not be a dogmatist.

It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.