Albert Einstein Quotes
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
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This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
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My rule is to use whatever feels right at the moment and then break that rule if you want.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
