Favorite Quotes

Here is a current list of quotes I have collected over the years. I feel they represent myself in research and views of the cosmos.

• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. - Richard Feynman

• The larger the circle of light becomes, the greater the perimeter of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

• Il bene si fa ma non si dice e certe medaglie si appendono all’anima, non alla giacca. - Gino Bartali

• What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics. - Nikola Tesla

• Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily. - Epictetus

• You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before. - Richard Feynman

• Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? - Yukio Mishima

• Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. - Kahlil Gibran

• Let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. - Kahlil Gibran

• Although beauty may give itself to everyone, it does not actually belong to anybody. - Yukio Mishima

• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves. - Albert Camus

• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein

• Los jóvenes tienen el deber de defender su Patria con las armas del conocimiento. - Pedro Albizu Campos

• I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. - Richard Feynman

• Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. - Benjamin Banneker

• The charm of knowledge would be small if so much shame did not have to be overcome on the road to it. - Friedrich Nietzsche

• He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

• …if we are the beneficiaries of an evolutionary process, however widely or narrowly it may cast its net, our obligation is not just to learn but also to love. - Timothy Ferris

• Pale Blue Dot. - Carl Sagan

• …one can learn to live with ambiguity–that much is requisite to the seeking spirit–and with the silence of the stars. All who genuinely seek to learn, whether atheist or believer, scientist or mystic, are united in having not a faith but faith itself. Its token is reverence, its habit to respect the eloquence of silence. For God’s hand may be a human hand, if you reach out in loving kindness, and God’s voice your voice, if you but speak the truth. - Timothy Ferris

• I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha. - Hermann Hesse