"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
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"Our heads are round so thought can change direction"
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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"Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!"
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"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."
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"I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith."
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"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
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"Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind"
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"It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty."
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"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you."
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"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life."
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"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
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"It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth."
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"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."
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"Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy."
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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
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"I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world."
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"The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing."
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