French Quotes

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

We thought it would be nice to have atoms interact in such a gentle way with the photons that they would just take an imprint of the photons, so that many atoms could 'see' the same photon and it would give rise to a lot of interesting effects. Myself and my colleagues had this project for a very lo

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

No news is good news.

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

The secret of success is sincerity.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.