Thoughts
and Aphorisms

“It is just impossible to determine the boundaries of sciences, especially nature studies. The human mind is constantly moving forward, regardless of all the obstacles... Let’s hurry up, double our steps, and our children or great-children are likely to be in the forefront.”

“Each generation of scholars works relying on the experience of all the previous generations. That is why each scientific concept, idea or important fact that is already clarified triggers new cycles of new works that are developing to verify or refute the previously missing clauses and facts introduced to the scientific turnover.”

“Honesty in science is indivisible from honesty in life.”

“... persistent scientific work... will soon pay off.”

The greatest achievement of a human genius is that a person can understand things he cannot imagine.

“With the help of science a person can correct the imperfection of nature.”

“Mathematics is the highest philosophical science, the science of outstanding poets.”

“The appearance of written language is not the time of its birth; the language had long had practical significance and paved the way for science.”

“The most important thing is to do everything with enthusiasm, it makes life brighter.”

“... To master a trade or science and in general to become a member of modern society, one needs go through a long school of both mental and moral education.”

“Science like a sea requires self-abnegation.”

“I am obliged to the University.... first and foremost for my overall development. It vectored both my theoretical and practical activity, made both educational and educative influence on me.”

“Lack of curiosity, I believe, renders impossible any normal development of a person.”

“Intuition is the most important element of any creativity.”

“The singularity of talents and creative abilities of different people (be that in science, art, or any other area of a person’s activity) is the most valuable distinction of a person from his technical rivals.”

“A person’s culture enables him to prepare himself a happy existence and a fearless end.”

“...A machine is becoming not just a helper, but also a rival in the person’s intellectual activity.”

“It is difficult to concede that in more or less distant future science would not have coped with a task, or would not have solved a problem as to prolonging human life till the desired extent and eliminating other disharmonies of human nature.”

“What used to be scientific for one time becomes non-scientific at every step for another... Every epoch is characterised by its scientific nature, which strongly distinguishes it from other epochs.”

“I don’t have a last working hour, but I work till I have treated the last patient.”

“Holiness is not mere righteousness entitling the the righteous to relishing in bliss enjoyed in the Kingdom of God, but it is such a degree of righteousness that makes people so full of the divine grace that it emanates from them effecting those they are in contact with.”

“Love Ukraine, like sun that you love
Like wind, like grass, and like water,
Whenever you’re happy, in moments of gladness,
At times of trouble, do love.”

“As the knowledge progresses, moral actions will be more and more associated with useful behavior.”

“Consistent contradictions result in an organizational task, which is the more pressing, the more developed the contradictions are, a task to permit or eliminate them. Life resolves it either in a negative way by ruining the system itself, for example, the organism dies, or in a positive way by transforming the system ridding it of contradictions.”

“Keep working without looking either ahead or back, work without waiting for either a reward or praise from anywhere or anybody; keep working as long as your hands can serve you, as long as your heart is alive and beating in your chest; keep working for the benefit of your people, for the good of your beloved Motherland.”

“As everybody knows the ancestors’ glory is a priceless pledge to be redeemed by the descendants through as worthy deeds as their ancestors performed to commemorate their names.”

“A human will never be content with merely what nature has endowed him with; the active part of the very human will be necessary. Similarly to how he has changed the nature of animals and plants, the human will also have to change his own nature to make it more balanced.”

“The well-being of my beloved country and the southern land was the underlying motive for founding the University.”