Isaac Sachs Quotes

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth. ~ Isaac Asimov

Isaac slipped her a subtle grin that she understood perfectly. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" was apparently a universal concept. ~ Chloe Jacobs

Well, not the stuff they use in robotics, which I wouldn't follow, but sociological relationships I can handle. For instance, I'm familiar with the Teramin Relationship." "The what, sir?" "Maybe you have a different name for it. The differential of inconveniences suffered with privileges granted: dee eye sub jay taken to the nth - - " "What are you talking about? ~ Isaac Asimov

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action ( caeteris paribus ) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance? ~ Isaac Newton

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ~ Isaac Stern

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. ~ Isaac Asimov

My brain hasn't yet remembered that my body is valuable. ~ Isaac Marion

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist. ~ Isidor Isaac Rabi

What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it was like. A smoldering dread that never really caught fire till there wasn't much left to burn. Each sequential step surprised us. Then one day we woke up, and everything was gone. ~ Isaac Marion

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. ~ Isaac Asimov

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies. ~ Ira Sachs

I don't believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence. ~ Isaac Asimov

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. ~ Isaac Watts

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry", indecision when right was "caution", and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination. ~ Isaac Asimov

Our cadaverous cadre has been walking for little over a day ... ~ Isaac Marion

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man. ~ Isaac Asimov

This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself. ~ Erik Larson

closer than a touch on your skin,
deeper than a breathe you draw in;
stronger than a hurricane wind,
is the dwelling of God within. ~ Isaac De Benserade

hierarchies are lies. Because no one needs the alpha. He gets to the top by puffing and bluffing until we all believe he belongs there. When your power is built on ignorance, you don't want people talking to each other. ~ Isaac Marion

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime. ~ Isaac D'Israeli

I don't know the pain she's speaking from, but I know it's deep. It makes her hard and yet so terribly soft. It's her thorns and it's her hand reaching out from the thicket. ~ Isaac Marion

- It lacks glamour?
- It lacks mob emotion-appeal.
- Same thing. ~ Isaac Asimov

All evil is good become cancerous. ~ Isaac Asimov

It is he who endured every kind of suffering in all those who foreshadowed him. In Abel he was slain, in Isaac bound, in Jacob exiled, in Joseph sold, in Moses exposed to die. He was sacrificed in the Passover lamb, persecuted in David, dishonoured in the prophets. ~ Anonymous

I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous." ~ Isaac Mizrahi

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset. ~ Isaac Todhunter

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. ~ Isaac Watts

One day, I spent a long time with Isaac drawing a tea party for dinosaurs. On a huge piece of brown packaging paper we drew allosaurs and tyrannosaurs sitting on little chairs, with hind legs politely crossed ~ Brooks Haxton

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. The more people there are, the less one individual matters. ~ Isaac Asimov

When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying. ~ Isaac Asimov

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them. ~ Isaac Asimov

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich. ~ Jeffrey D. Sachs

A story to me must have some surprise ... I must have a passion to write the story. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Encyclopedias don't win wars. ~ Isaac Asimov

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. ~ Jeffrey Sachs

Rick said something, then tapped Isaac on the shoulder and said it again, so Isaac took Rick's penis out of his mouth and looked straight at him, paying attention this time. "If you keep doing that, things are going to get messy," said Rick in a heavy, breathy whisper.

"I know," said Isaac, and he went back to his explorations. Messy was the point. Honestly, it was as though Rick thought Isaac hadn't done any research at all. ~ Shukyou

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. ~ Isaac Newton

Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a good grasp of science. The ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, questions of diet and heredity. All require scientific literacy. Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate? The whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion-but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance? ~ Isaac Asimov

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower! ~ Isaac Watts

We may be old, boys, but we're not dead."
"I will murder you if you ever, ever imply that my mother has sex ever again," Isaac mutters as he cringes. ~ Kristen Proby

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide. ~ Isaac Newton

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting. ~ Oscar Isaac

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome. ~ Isaac Asimov

Pinter is leaving for the day?" Isaac commented. "That's a pity."
"Why?"
"Haven't you noticed how he looks at Celia sometimes? I think he might have set his sights on her."
"I thought so, too. Until just now."
"Just now?"
"He did not react exactly as I expected when I-" Oh, dear, perhaps she should not mention that. Isaac might not approve."
"Hetty?" Isaac prodded. "What mischief have you been up to now? You weren't warning him off, were you?"
The disapproval in his tone made her bristle. "And what if I was? The man is the love child of a light-heeled wench and God knows whom."
Isaac's jaw tautened. "I didn't know you were such a snob."
"I am not," she protested. "But given his circumstances, I want to be sure he is interested in Celia for something other than her fortune. I watched my daughter marry a man whom she thought loved her, only to discover that he was merely a more skillful fortune hunter than most. I do not want to make that mistake again."
He sighed. "All right. I suppose I understand your caution. But Pinter? I've never seen a less likely fortune hunter. He talks about people of rank with nothing but contempt."
"And does that not worry you? She is one of those people, after all."
"What it tells me is that he doesn't think much of marrying for rank or fortune."
She gripped his arm. "I suppose. And I must admit that when I hinted I could disinherit her if she married too low-"
"Hetty!"
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