This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties?. but there are no certainties." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds." - Hamilton Wright Mabie
"Action alone is the exclusive prerogative of man; neither a beast nor a god is capable of it, and only action is entirely dependent upon the constant presence of others." - Hannah Arendt
"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious." - Hannah Arendt
"One must realize that, apart from considerations of color and form, there are two fundamentally different ways of regarding a medium of expression: one is based on taste only ? an approach in which the external physical elements of expression are merely pleasingly arranged. This way results in decoration with no spiritual reaction. Arrangement is not art. The second way is based on the artist?s power of empathy, to feel the intrinsic qualities of the medium of expression. Through these qualities the medium comes to life. ... In this life, an intuitive artist discovers the emotive and vital substance which makes a work of art." - Hans Hoffman
"Why is Einstein's theory better than Lorentz's theory? It would be a mistake to argue that Einstein's theory gives an explanation of Michelson's experiment, since it does not do so. Michelson's experiment is simply taken over as an axiom." - Hans Reichenbach
"We learn by teaching." - Italian Proverbs