Science Never Promised Peace or Happiness

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of, even in the ruins of Nagasaki. – Jacob Bronnowski




Science has promised us truth – It has never promise us either peace or happiness. – Gustave le Bon



One humiliating thing about science is that it is gradually filling our homes with appliances smarter than we are. – Oskaloosa Herald



Matter – a convenient formula for describing what happens where it isn’t. – Bertrand Russell



Science can tell us means to an end, but not about what the ends should be. – Leonard Hodgson



Scientists should be on tap but not on top. – Sir Winston Churchill



When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Prisoners of Thought

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A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. – Lord Halifax




When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. – Aristotle



Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, even more than death. – Bertrand Russell



A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought are commonly the most valuable and should be secured, because they seldom return. – Francis Bacon





People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibilities for what they know. – Brooks Atkinson



Secret study, silent thought is, after all, the mightiest agent in human affairs. – William Ellery Channing



Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and promptness. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Interesting Answers Destroy the Questions

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Nothing is so good that some fault cannot be found with it. – Aesop fable

It’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. – Bertrand Russell

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. – Eugene Ionesco

‘Tis not every question that deserves an answer. – Thomas Fuller

Good questions outrank easy answers. – Paul A. Samuelson

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. – Susan Sontag

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris

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A Symptom That a Nervous Breakdown is on its Way

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If you have two jobs and you’re rich you have diversified interests. If you have two jobs and you’re poor, you’re moonlighting. – Anonymous

About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog. – Ed Howe

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform always do the most disagreeable first. – Josiah Quincy

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it. – Fred McKinney

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhamman Ali

My mistake was buying stock in the company. Now I worry about the lousy work I’m turning out. – Marvin Townsend

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. – Bertrand Russell

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Democracy at its Ugliest

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’e scraping the top of the barrel. – Gore Vidal

Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what the people want. – Clive Barnes

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. – Fred Allen

Television is democracy at its ugliest. – Paddy Chayefsky

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. – Rita Mae Brown

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. – H.L. Mencken

Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell

So little time, so little to do. – Oscar Levant

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