Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas
Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She ...
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his...
Explanation is where the mind rests
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his high...
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason
Italian Dominican friar, Philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential ph...
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in
Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting...
It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people
English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the ...
Chance favors the prepared mind
French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, ...
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large
Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity one of the two pillars of modern ph...