The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.
There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.
The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.
The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.