wisdom Quotes

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don't need justification.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.