Quotes

Science hasn’t yet figured out how to solve obesity.

-USA Today

A Hideous Hermaphroditical Character which has neither the Force and Firmness of a Man, Not the Gentleness and Sensibility of a Woman

-Written by Thomas Jefferson about John Adams who paid journalist James Thomson Callender to publish it

General Jackson’s mother was a common prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterwards married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!

-The Cincinnati Gazette 1828 on General Jackson

To be turned out by the Pimp of the White House

-Congressman Kenneth Rayner on President Franklin Pierce

History is the science of what never happens twice.

-Paul Valéry

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

-Paul Valéry

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts

-Richard Feynman

Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.

-Lord Acton

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

-David Brinkley

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

-Paul Valéry

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

-George Orwell

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

-Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

-Lord Acton