Quotes by Scientists - Page 2

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
Expect nothing and life will be velvet.
Lisa Gardiner
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.
Francis Bacon
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
René Descartes
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
Adelbert Ames
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
Francis Bacon
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
G. Norman Collie
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Francis Bacon
Riches are for spending.
Francis Bacon
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Sir Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Sir Francis Bacon
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Francis Bacon
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
I take all knowledge to be my province.
Sir Francis Bacon
For knowledge too is itself a power.
Sir Francis Bacon
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Sir Francis Bacon
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason) but upon that department that is deep and sure which is instinct.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Sir Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Sir Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Ben Franklin
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.
Lord Moulton
To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.
G. Norman Collie
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
Charles Sanders Peirce
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis Bacon
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon
Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
Sir Francis Bacon
Too much is unwholesome.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Sir Francis Bacon
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O.A. Battista
In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.
Piet Hein
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon