Quotes About Legacy

Quando Einstein muore, Bohr, il suo grandissimo rivale, ha parole di commovente ammirazione. Quando pochi anni dopo muore Bohr, qualcuno prende una fotografia della lavagna nel suo studio: c'è un disegno. Rappresenta la «scatola piena di luce» dell'esperimento mentale di Einstein. Fino all'ultimo, la voglia di confrontarsi e capire di più. Fino all'ultimo, il dubbio.

Boltzmann was not taken seriously. At the age of fifty-six, in Duino, near Trieste, he committed suicide. Today he is considered one of the geniuses of physics.

If Planck is the father of the theory, Einstein is the parent who nurtured it.

When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn died, someone took a photograph of the blackboard in his study. There's a drawing on it. A drawing of the "light-filled box" in Einstein's thought experiment. To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.

Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.

When you start thinking about leaving, choose your moment carefully. Go out while you're still on top, not when you're no longer in control of events.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo había sentenciado el destino de nuestro país [España, pero en realidad el mundo]: matarás y matarte han y matarán a quien te matare.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

Me: What has happened to other civilizations? Oldman/Child: The Earth wanted them all dead. Me: What have we done? Oldman/Child: You have become parasites.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

When you wake the town this morning, ring the bells as if you were the greatest musician on earth. Make each stroke count. Invent sounds you've never heard before. Reach deep down inside you for inspiration. Make your grandfather pround.

When we view these enormous stone monuments today we see them in gray stone, but this is not how they once were.

No fate is worse than oblivion; it is the completest form of death that can befall a queen.

Nothing lasts for those who are born to die, Both fortune and misfortune hurry by.

The Fiscal Legacy of Crises Declining revenues and higher expenditures, owing to a combination of bailout costs and higher transfer payments and debt servicing costs, lead to a rapid and marked worsening in the fiscal balance.

Terminar una cosa sería no quedarse con temor de ella. Porque nada se termina ni se concluye, todo se enlaza revueltamente. Todo se va, pero sin haber terminado, y la cola de lo no terminado remueve lo siguiente.

When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets.

For Johnson, nearly 250 years of unpaid toil to build one of the wealthiest nations on earth did not earn citizenship.

This was Maude's legacy; she left Alice with her heart weakened, its chambers bruised. She was no longer up to the enthusiasm required by love.

The world goes on, little Seri," he said. "A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.