quotes

Life

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
One: The food in this place is really terrible. Other one: Yeah, I know; and such small portions. Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. ... the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.
Don't try to be a great man; just be a man.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
[they] who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Deserve's got nothing to do with it.
It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
The dog barks, but the caravan goes on.
On peut avoir un feu ardent dans l'âme et cependant personne ne vient s'y chauffer. Les passants ne voient qu'un ruban de fumée s'échappant de la cheminée et ils passent leur chemin.
Cogito ergo sum
Memento mori, Sisyphus.
To you from failing hands we throw the torch.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear -- when you are the hammer, strike.
Not on one string are all life's jewels strung.
If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.
Life is a cement trampoline.
Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Without [memory], time would be unarmed against us.
A man cannot step in the same river twice, because it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. ... Time to die.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. Live long and prosper.
Like a wave from an ocean.
Dust. Wind. Dude.

The Universe

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Considering the marvelous complexity of our universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, pattern, I believe our existence must mean more than a meaningless illusion. I prefer to believe that my and your existence goes beyond Euclidian and other "practical" measuring systems... and that, in ways we cannot yet fathom, our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
e^{π i} = cos π + i sin π = -1
It's not hard to imagine an 11-dimensional universe. Just imagine an n-dimensional universe, then let n=11.
These go to eleven.
The sun sees not the shadow.
E pur si muove!

and Everything else

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
La foi transporte les montagnes, c'est vrai. La raison les laisse où elles sont, c'est mieux.
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
I had no need of that hypothesis.
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are.
If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong though. It's Hambone.
Never use a large word where a diminutive one would suffice.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
You have beautiful thighs.
Crumbly, but good.
Goo goo ga joob.
U.P.: up.
Well it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
Calculus has its limits.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
There are two types of people in this world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
99.9% of humans have more than the average number of arms.
99% of politicians give the rest a bad name.
What has four letters, sometimes nine, and never five.
Possessio is nine tenths of the word.
I like Isaac Newton's calculus, but his notation is derivative.
Q: Do you have the time?
A: You don't have time; time has you.
When all the world is past, and I can't remember the days, I will still love you.
When people are mean to me, my heart will never get broken, because you're inside it
So it goes.