Zwicky Quotes

#1. Dark matter, which is invisible to us and yet is believed to account for 90 per cent, or more, of all the matter in the universe. Dark matter was first theorized in the 1930s by Fritz Zwicky,

Bill Bryson

#2. The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
Fritz Zwicky to youngest daughter, Barbarina Zwicky

Fritz Zwicky

#3. Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

Fritz Zwicky

#4. One of the reasons I think we are sometimes critical of support for the arts is that art - lyric art in particular - can make us uncomfortably aware that economically expedient answers may not always be true.

Jan Zwicky

#5. Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.

Jan Zwicky

#6. The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#7. Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

Fritz Zwicky

#8. I soon became convinced ... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

Fritz Zwicky

#9. Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.

Jan Zwicky

#10. I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

Fritz Zwicky

#11. If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.

Fritz Zwicky

#12. A child correct behind and not before.

George Herbert

#13. I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#14. Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.

Jacqueline Patricks

#15. Love, I'm pretty sure, is light.

Jan Zwicky

#16. Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized.

Fritz Zwicky

#17. Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

Fritz Zwicky

#18. To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.
[Diary entry, 1971]

Fritz Zwicky

#19. The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

Carl Jung

#20. Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.

Robert Bridges

#21. The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

Joe Biden

#22. Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

John Carmack

#23. the particles are quanta of quantum fields; light is formed by quanta of a field; space is nothing more than a field, which is also made of quanta; and time emerges from the processes of this same field. In other words, the world is made entirely from quantum fields (

Carlo Rovelli

#24. Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.

Fritz Zwicky

#25. Jeffrey to Felicia - Given your peculiar fashions over the past four years, I'm afraid you've caused people to believe you're a little insane.

Jen Turano

#26. From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.

Kathleen Norris

#27. Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.

Fritz Zwicky