Quotes by Philosopher

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone."

"I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured."

"Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure."

"When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it."