This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wilhelm von Humboldt, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
Energy | Individual | Man | Need | Perception | Reason | Research | Spirit | Study | Truth |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I have been trying my best to help (the President) and Wall Street Restore Confidence. Confidence, is one of the hardest things in the World to get restored once it gets out of bounds. I have helped restore a lot of things in my time, such as cattle back to the home range. Helped to revive interest in National Political Conventions. Even assisted the Democrats in every forlorn pilgrimage, and a host of other worthy charities. But I tell you this Restoring Confidence is the toughest drive I ever assisted in. When I took up the work two or three weeks ago, confidence was at a mighty low ebb. Wall Street had gone into one tail spin after another… I am telling (folks) that the Country as a whole is Sound, and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I am no believer in this “hard work, perseverance, and taking advantage of your opportunities” that these Magazines are so fond of writing some fellow up in. The successful don’t work any harder than the failures. They get what is called in baseball the breaks.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?
Aid | Government | Humanity | Man | Politics | Reason | Truth | Will | Government |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The Republican platform promises to do better. I don’t think they have done so bad. Everybody’s broke but them.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
We have it on the best of our information that taxes will be relieved, but not until after your death.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different.
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Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night an ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
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Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language. It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms. Furthermore, it is very difficult to modify our language so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental pictures, and this ability, too, is a result of daily experience. Fortunately, mathematics is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a mathematical scheme - the quantum theory - which seems entirely adequate for the treatment of atomic processes; for visualization, however, we must content ourselves with two incomplete analogies - the wave picture and the corpuscular picture.
Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.