Melvin Schwartz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.
Why don't you light that candle ?
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
There is no justice in following unjust laws.
Labor is the law of happiness.
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

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