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#1

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor-who, humor, time-travel

1666 likes

#2

“You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor-who

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#3

“There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor, doctor-who, the-doctor

1224 likes

#4

“I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.”
― Steven Moffat

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#5

“Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?

Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor-who

112 likes

#6

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

3945 likes

#7

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

2163 likes

#8

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: humour, science, wisdom

1748 likes

#9

“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”
― Stephen Hawking

631 likes

#10

“[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

tags: humor, science, stupidity

444 likes

#11

“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: atheism, inspirational, science

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#12

“No other organism on Earth does that. Yes, yes, I understand that dolphins are very smart, but I don’t think they build libraries or even contemplate such a project.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

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#13

“While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

tags: feminism, love

95 likes

#14

“And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.”
― Jessica Valenti, Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness

tags: jessica-valenti, kids, mother, parenthood, why-have-kids

51 likes

#15

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle

1684 likes

#16

“We're all stories, in the end.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: amy-pond, doctor-who, eleven, steven-moffat, stories

1315 likes

#17

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151664 likes

#18

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101582 likes

#19

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

4630 likes

#20

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

711 likes

#21

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

841 likes

#22

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

688 likes

#23

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge

2258 likes

#24

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: failure, inspirational, risks, success, taking-risks

417 likes

#25

“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
― Doctor Who

332 likes

#26

“Unser Leben hängt davon ab, was wir aus dem machen, was aus uns gemacht wurde.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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