Beaten Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

— Hans Ree

Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it…

— Jacques Maritain

The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back…

— Wernher von Braun

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

— Winston Churchill

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

— Eric Hoffer

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…

— Robert M. Pirsig

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy…

— Alan Greenspan

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

— Hannah More

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can…

— James F. Cooper