QUOTES
A collection of wisdom, insight, and inspiration that has shaped my thinking and perspective over the years.
PHILOSOPHY
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young
Gaius Octavius
Plutarch, Apothegms
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strength to Love ch. 7, 1963
The problem of values is nothing but the problem of our acts, goals and morals. It concerns the compass by which we must steer our ship if we are to set a true course through life. The compass itself has been given different names by various religions and philosophies: happiness, the will of God, the meaning of life-to mention just a few. The differences in the names reflect profound differences in the awareness of different human groups. I have no wish to belittle these differences, but I have the clear impression that all such formulations try to express man's relatedness to a central order.
Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation, p. 214, 1971
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
John Von Neumann
Year book of the American Philosophical Society, 1958
MATHEMATICS
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.
Kurt Godel
Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic p. 13, 1979