Isaac Quotes

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

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

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.

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

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

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.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

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.

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

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

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

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

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.