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“My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great meals. I do not believe mankind will ever develop a formula to explain this.”

Ifs Giving Writing Believe Funny Science Universe House Nice Mankind Stupid Jokes Give Me Meals Formulas Really Nice Nice House Stupid Jokes

Author:Joel Klein

“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.”

Ifs Knows Giving I Can Science Literature Middle Terrible Accounts Give Me Bricks

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.”

World Giving Long Enough Moving Science Give Me Levers

Author:Archimedes

“I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.”

“The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.”

World Giving Enough Science Dark Give Me Wigs Sunglasses Wheelchairs

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”

People Men Giving Mind Made Hands Science Lying Night Effort Study Subjects Genius Labor Give Me Fruit Credit Day And Night True Genius Fruit Of Labor

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.”

Source: If I lived my life again

“Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.”

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.”

“Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.”

“You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.”

Giving I Can Problem Science Hours Answers Numbers Half Four Produce Solutions Give Me Mathematics Complicated Slate Containing Wrong Answers

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.”

Giving Should Writing Country Matter Hands Science Desire Names Natural Journey Childhood Accounts Give Me Originals Globes Respectable Niche Explorers Contributors Natural History

Author:Joseph Dalton Hooker

“Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!”

World Giving Matter Science Give Me Constructs

Book:Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

Source: Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham