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Category Archives: Nobel Laureates

“Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves”. –Werner Heisenberg

“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away”. –Linus Pauling

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. –Friedrich von Hayek

“For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers, and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, otherwise the American people in their struggle for liberation from the British colonialists would have been terrorists; the European resistance against the Nazis would be terrorism, the struggle of the Asian, African, and Latin American people would also be terrorism…” –Yasser Arafat

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise”. –Boris Pasternak

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment”. –Dag Hammarskjöld

“Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs the world”. –Polykarp Kusch

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. –Albert Einstein

“Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin”. –Ivan Pavlov

“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself”. –Alexis Carrel

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway”. –John Steinbeck

“The African is my brother — but he is my younger brother by several centuries”. –Albert Schweitzer

“Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice”. –Elihu Root

“You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies”. –Yitzhak Rabin

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost”. –Salvatore Quasimodo

“There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history, and the ones who endure it”. –Camilo Jose Cela

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel; for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are”. –Niels Bohr

“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is”. –Albert Camus

“Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds”. –Henri La Fontaine

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