Bernard Quotes

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.

Uncyclopedia isn't funny anymore.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money.

Appeal can't happen until I've been sentenced.

Most people are cowards.

Every statute for terrorism requires violence.

I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government, but I'm not really happy about them.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

The physical manifestation of gold is nothing more than the physical manifestation of value itself.

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.

When the money goes bad, everything else goes bad.

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.

Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Science rejects the indeterminate.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.