"We know enough to be sure that..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.
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“To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.”
“The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.”
“The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.”
More on Science
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
“We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.”
“How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.”
More on Future
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
“Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money”
“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.”