Quotes About Perspective

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I was a Political Science major.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.