Jacob Quotes

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

God ever arithmetizes.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

Once we have the infrastructure in Africa, it should not be blocked by borders.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.

There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.

Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.

Certainty ends inquiry.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.