"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself"

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Source : "Mathematical Circles Squared : A Third Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes" by Howard Whitley Eves, (p. 125), 1972.

David Hilbert

#Believe Quotes #May Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“God Almighty (swt) says: My love is incumbent for those who love each other for Me; who sit together for Me; who visit each other for Me; and who spend on each other for Me.”
“It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.”
“Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it.”
“Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.”
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

Source : "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.
“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.”
“If something scares you, you run toward it, not away from it.”

Source : "Being: Vanessa Bell Calloway". Interview with Britni Danielle, www.ebony.com. March 31, 2017.
“Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.”

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