I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.' Enrico Fermi
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. E. O. Wilson
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life. Ian Fleming
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. Harry S Truman
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
There is nothing in this world that I fear to say. Dmitri Mendeleev
There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. Chen-Ning Yang
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say. Barbara McClintock
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
It may be fair to say that these were the first experiments to give physicists in the United States a conviction of the fundamental validity of the quantum theory. Arthur Compton
It may be fair to say that these were the first experiments to give physicists in the United States a conviction of the fundamental validity of the quantum theory.
Believing it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early. Gunter Grass
Believing it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
It is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth. Andreas Vesalius
It is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.
Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; Andreas Vesalius
Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women;