72 quotes found
“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.”
“Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.”
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students who have guided and aided me throughout my scientific l...”
“I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.”
“We all live under the same sky but we don't all have the same horizon.”
“The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.”
“I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.”
“Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.”
“We do not take humor seriously enough.”
“We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.”
“Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.”
“Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.”
“The same individual geese on which we conducted these experiments, first aroused my interest in the process of domestication. They were F1 hybrids of wild Greylags and domestic geese and they showe...”
“All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this erro...”
“The scientist who considers himself absolutely objective and believes that he can free himself from the compulsion of the merely subjective should try — only in imagination of course — to kill in s...”
“We are the highest achievement reached so far by the great constructors of evolution. We are their latest but certainly not their last word. The scientist must not regard anything as absolute, not ...”
“Nobody can seriously believe that free will means that it is left entirely to the will of the individual, as to an irresponsible tyrant, to do or not do whatever he pleases. Our freest will underli...”
“I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief — deeply rooted in our western culture — that what can be explained in terms of natural science has no values. This bel...”
