Isaac Quotes

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.

The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Past glories are poor feeding.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.