Steven Weinberg Quotes
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.
Steven Weinberg
Quotes to Explore
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
Vladimir Nabokov
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
Adolf Hitler
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
William Wordsworth
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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
Honore de Balzac
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Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
George Washington
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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
George Bernard Shaw
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My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.
Scott Glenn
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments.
Albert Einstein
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For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
Cressida Cowell
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Open-minded people will not necessarily agree with me, not when my arguments don't make sense to them. But open-minded people do listen, and if I explain and when it is important, they are willing to invest in reevaluating their cause-and-effect connections.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
