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  People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Attitude, Freedom

  "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 17, (p. 193), 1979.

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• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Opposites, Political

  "Sceptical Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda, 1928.

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• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Ideas, Doe

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• A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Simple, Simplicity

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.69, Basic Books

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• Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

  James D. Watson

  Future, Years, Interesting

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• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  E. B. White

  Views, Space, Ferris Wheels

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Secret, Philosopher

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Majority

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 26 (1884)

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• Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Believe, Knowledge

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.363, Knopf

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• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

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• Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

  Stephen Hawking

  Differences, Different, Matter

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Men, Common Sense, Firsts

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1887). “The "Breakfast-table" Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table; The Professor at the Breakfast- Table; The Poet at the Breakfast- Table”

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• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Tattoo, Art

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• Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

  George Henry Lewes

  Giving, Genius, Able

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Air, Light

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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• The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Independence, World, Village

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Law, Divinity, Physics

  1970 Do WhatYou Will,'The Summing-Up: Meredith Dawe'.

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• One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Geometry, Convenient

  1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.22.

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• It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

  Max Planck

  Success, Truth, Congratulations

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  John Locke

  Business, Philosophy, War

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

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• A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

  Alan Perlis

  Believe, Technology, Years

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Discovery, Doors

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Thinking, Able

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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• It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Order, Ideas, People

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