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Famous
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For
us physicists, the distinction between past, present,
and future is only an illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Yes,
there is a nirvana: it is in leading your sheep to a
green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and
in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran
It
is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
You
may never know what results come of your action, but
if you do nothing there will be no result.
- Mahatma Gandhi
All
mankind are my brethren; to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine
We
must always think about things, and we must think about
things as they are, and not as they are said to be.
- George Bernard Shaw
If
there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something
wrong with the universe.
- Dr. Beverly Crusher, from
Star Trek
It
should be possible to explain the laws of physics to
a barmaid.
- Albert Einstein
The
wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are
perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin D'Israeli
The
significant problems we face cannot be solved at the
same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat
it.
- George Santayana
If
you want to be original, question all truths handed
down to you.
- Niles Eldridge
Education
is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a
fire.
- Wiliam Butler Yeats
The
instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies
from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
- Voltaire
Belief
in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto
been believed true. - Friedrich
Nietzsche
Knowledge
will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean
to be their own governours, must arm themselves with
the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison
I
often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
- George Bernard Shaw
He
that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
- Benjamin Franklin
Opinion
says hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and empty
space. - Democritus,
460 B.C.
Be
led by reason.
- Greek Proverb
I
cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a
riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill
Only
the educated are free.
- Epictetus
The
most important service rendered by the press and the
magazines is that of educating people to approach printed
matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Discovery
consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody has thought.
- Albert Gyorgyi
An
education isn't how much you have committed to memory,
or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate
between what you know and what you don't.
- Anatole France
Education
is the ability to meet life's situations.
- Dr. John G. Hibben
In
questions of science, the authority of a thousand is
not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei
Think
for yourself. Whatever is happening at the moment, try
to think for your self.
- Jean Riboud
Discoveries
are often made by not following instructions; by going
off the main road; by trying the untried. - Frank
Tyger
A
time will come when men will stretch out their eyes.
They should see planets like our Earth.
- Christopher Wren
Great
spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre
minds. - Albert Einstein
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