Isaac Quotes

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

Computerization eliminates the middleman

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest.

In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.