Accidents Quote by George Sarton

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of…

— Douglas Hofstadter

“In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of…

— Eraldo Banovac

During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before.…

— Augustus De Morgan

For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside…

— Marianne Williamson

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software…

— Anonymous

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

— Julia Quinn

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

— Ingmar Bergman

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

— J. Maarten Troost

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that…

— Stephen Fry

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of…

— John Milton

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to…

— William O. Douglas

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled…

— Lauren Oliver