Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
James A. Garfield
Tag: Quote of the Day
11OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
John Galsworthy
10OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
There’s just one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in Opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
John Galsworthy
09OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
John Galsworthy
08OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy
07OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
Philosophy is written in this grand book — I mean the universe — which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei
06OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?
Galileo Galilei
05OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
04OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
It does not pay a man to exist until the age of Methuselah by making his days indolent and useless. The more this is reflected upon, the more the reflector will desire to undertake meaningful and useful actions, the more they will have lived.
Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great)
03OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
I wanted to have a water jet in my garden: Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water to a reservoir, from where it should fall back through channels, finally spurting out in Sans Souci. My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a mouthful of water closer than fifty paces from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!
Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great)
(Every engineer recognizes this as the lament of a dissatisfied client! – photog)