Submarine Related Quotes

"No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War." --- General Colin Powell

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover Quotes... "father" of America's Nuclear Navy (1900-1986).

  • "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -Admiral Hyman G. Rickover,
  • All of us must become better informed. It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
  • The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
  • "The only way to make a difference in the world is to put ten times as much effort into everything as anyone else thinks is reasonable. It doesn't leave any time for golf or cocktails, but it gets things done."
  • "If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you, but the bureaucracy won't."
  • Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
  • Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. (One of these is misquoted, anyone know for sure?)

Albert Einstien Quotes - It's a Nuclear World!

  • "The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." -(Albert Einstein)
  • "Imagination is more important than knowledge." (Albert Einstein)
  • "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can asure you that mine are all greater." (Albert Einstein)
  • "The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life." (Albert Einstein)
  • "A hundred times every day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received." (Albert Einstein)
  • "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." (Albert Einstein)
  • "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." (Albert Einstein)
  • "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." (Albert Einstein)
  • "What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable." (Albert Einstein)
  • "The only rational way of educating is to be an example." (Albert Einstein)
  • "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age." (Albert Einstein)
  • "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." (Albert Einstein)