Quotes About Perseverance

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.