Martin Gardner Famous Quotes



"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry."


Martin Gardner Quotations






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"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have."
Harry S Truman

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert

I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling

"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."
Saskya Pandita

"For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him."
Bertolt Brecht

"If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)"
Ronald Reagan

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
Albert Einstein

"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire."
Arab Proverb

"Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design."
Oprah Winfrey

"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand."
Chinese Proverb