Isaac Quotes

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

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.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.