Shocking Sayings

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.

I know of only one bird — the parrot — that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Knowing how contented, free and joyful is life in the realms of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter their portals.

I don't believe a word of the whole thing they must have spent the whole of their £500. million in separating isotopes. and then it's possible.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

The total number of minds in the universe is one.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

At some stage therefore we should have to expect the machines to take control.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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.

I gave orders for scalping the slain.

Here we make Italy or we die.

Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of time decided — that was the great error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it.

Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

Every State is a dictatorship.