Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Mark Twain

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Daniel Handler

Everybody has a theory.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Gary L. Francione

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Terry Pratchett

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

Stephen Hawking

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.