Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since… — Anthony Powell
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of… — Humphry Davy
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or… — Steven Chu
For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a… — Charles Darwin
I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac
I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand,… — Hideki Yukawa
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought… — Hans Zinsser
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his… — Samuel Johnson
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against… — Charles Darwin
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious… — Bertrand Russell
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the… — Joseph Needham
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program… — Michio Kaku
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my… — Leon Croizat
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty. — Charles Richet
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern… — William Wilson Morgan
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. — G. H. Hardy
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and… — John Dalton
I wish I had my beta-blockers handy. — James Black
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to… — Ernest Rutherford
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. — Jonathan Swift
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time. — Alice Stewart
It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I… — Stephen Jay Gould

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