Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes

The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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• I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Science
  • Like
  • Imagination

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Science
  • Human

• Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Writing
  • Science

• By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • May
  • Science
  • Principles

• I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Fill

• To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Home

• Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.'

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
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• Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the mostMust mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

  

  Lord Byron
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• Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

  

  Lord Byron
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  • Ignorance

• Science repulses the indefinite.

  

  Claude Bernard
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• 'Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be celebrated and sanctified...' whispered my father.For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • Why
  • May

• Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Work
  • Together
  • Knowledge

• It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

  

  A. J. Cook
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  • Easy
  • Act

• The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Remember

• It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Serious
  • Laughter

• What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Inspiration
  • Generations
  • Presidency

• The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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  • Knowledge
  • Universe