Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

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
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter. — John Arbuthnot
Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit… — Linus Pauling
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab… — Gertrude B. Elion
My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it. — Astley Cooper

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