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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hate, Men, Complacency

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1943). “The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions”, p.444, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Generations, Machines, Literature

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  Carl Jung

  Hurt, Wine, Years

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• It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

  Michio Kaku

  Facts, Going For It, Physics

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Mar 02, 2010

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• Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, Differences, Negative

  Stephen Leacock (1910). “Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches”

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• Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Cells, Decision

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• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Pregnancy, Catholic

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Principles, Invention

  1794 TheAge of Reason, pt.1.

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• Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Cells, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Technology

  Maximes et pensees (1825)

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.40, Open Road Media

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  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  William James

  Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

  "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Disrespectful, Scientist

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

  Ray Bradbury

  Impossible, Universe, Impossibility

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• Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

  Luis Bunuel

  Freedom, Lying, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Political, Fiction, Stories

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Nature, Law, Judging

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: A Meeting with Medusa”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Scientist

  Christian Science Monitor, July 24, 1986.

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• The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Scientist, Pursuit

  1870 Lothair, ch.17.

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• I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Logic, Habit

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.21, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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