Mohammad Huwaidi > Mohammad's Quotes

“We rely on geniuses to entertain us, educate us, lead us, and show us all what our species is capable of. We rely on geniuses to give us smart phones, electric cars, cures for diseases, social networking sites, sublime art, world-class food, and, indeed, the very fabric of our culture.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“The philosopher Edmund Burke said “there is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.” Imagination is the life force of the genius code. This force amplifies and colors every other piece of the code, and unlocks our potential for understanding and ability. It’s no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their lives. They’re audacious enough to think that they’re not just an ordinary player.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often the case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity,” Tesla wrote.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“magnate”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“Einstein said that “imagination is more important than knowledge,” because “knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“What is imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement—as a mysterious gift that can’t be explained or cultivated. But we’re wrong. Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“People with a better understanding of themselves are in a great position to understand others.”
― Michael Draper, How to Analyze People: Analyze & Read People with Human Psychology, Body Language, and the 6 Human Needs

“But I think for most of us the act of creativity or the inspirational moment comes at the tail end of a lot of hard work.”
― Rivka Galchen, Brian Greene: The Kindle Singles Interview

“The most important work that I’ve done in my life — not all of it, but most of it — was unexpected to me. I was working on a different problem and doing some calculation when I noticed something. Then you follow up that thing that you notice and it takes you to the result that was not what you were shooting for.”
― Rivka Galchen, Brian Greene: The Kindle Singles Interview

“So, I don’t know if math is real in the sense that it’s woven into the fabric of the cosmos, or if it’s something that we invent and impose upon it. I don’t know.”
― Rivka Galchen, Brian Greene: The Kindle Singles Interview

“We have food festivals, film festivals, and theater festivals. We have fashion festivals. How could we not celebrate science in the way that we celebrate these other things?”
― Rivka Galchen, Brian Greene: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Often times in physics we want to talk about empty space as a first step toward nothingness, but nothingness is far more profound than empty space. Nothingness is the absence of everything including space itself.”
― Rivka Galchen, Brian Greene: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.” - Dave Barry”
― Jeff Yee, The Particles of the Universe

“Temperature is the measurement of the average kinetic energy of particles, or the speed at which they move.”
― Jeff Yee, The Particles of the Universe

“the atom contains a nucleus at its core surrounded by a cloud of electrons (the electrons do not actually orbit like the Earth goes around the Sun”
― Jeff Yee, The Particles of the Universe

“Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” - Mark Twain   Matter”
― Jeff Yee, The Particles of the Universe

“وقد فتّشتُ عن أصحابِ دينٍ
لهم نسكٌ وليسَ بهم رياءُ

فألفيْتُ البهائمَ لا عقولٌ
تقيمُ لها الدليلَ ولا ضياءُ

وإخوانُ الفَطَانةِ في اختيالٍ
كأنهمُ لقومٍ أنبياءُ

فأمّا هؤلاء فأهلُ مكرٍ
وأما الأولونَ فأغبياءُ”
― أبو العلاء المعرى

“ولما رأيت الجهل في الناس فاشيا
تجاهلت حتى قيل إني جاهل
فوا عجبا كم يدعي الفضل ناقص
ووا أسفا كم يظهر النقص فاضل”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“أمّا اليَقين فلا يَقـــين وإنّمَا -- أقصَى اجتهادي أن أظُنَ وأحدِسَا”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“اثنان أهل الأرض : ذو عقــلٍ بلا ديــن وآخر ديِّنٌ لا عقل لهْ”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“تعبٌ كلها الحياة فما أعجبُ
إلا من راغبٍ في ازديادِ”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“لا إمام سوى العقل”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“خفف الوطء ما أظن أديم
الأرض إلا من هذه الأجساد”
― أبوالعلاء المعري

“من رامني لم يجدنى
كل المنازلِ غربةٌ”
― أبوالعلاء المعري

“وينشأ ناشئ الفتيان منا
على ما كان عوّده أبوه”
― أبوالعلاء المعري

“في اللاذقية ضجة ما بين أحمد والــــمسيحُ
هذا بناقوس يدق وذا بمئذنة يــــــــــــصيحُ
كلٌ يعظِّم دنيه يا ليت شعري ما الصحيحُ ؟”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“فما للفتى إلا انفرادٌ ووحدةٌ
إذا هو لم يُرزقْ بلوغَ المآربِ”
― أبو العلاء المعري