Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

It’s really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!

A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Science is but an image of the truth.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.