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  • #1
    Steven Moffat
    “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

  • #2
    Steven Moffat
    “You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”
    Steven Moffat

  • #3
    Steven Moffat
    “There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.”
    Steven Moffat

  • #4
    Steven Moffat
    “I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.”
    Steven Moffat

  • #5
    Steven Moffat
    “Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?

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

  • #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

  • #7
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #8
    “Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #12
    Bill Nye
    “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

  • #13
    Jessica Valenti
    “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

  • #14
    Jessica Valenti
    “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

  • #15
    Karl Marx
    “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

  • #16
    Steven Moffat
    “We're all stories, in the end.”
    Steven Moffat

  • #17
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “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

  • #19
    Richard Dawkins
    “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

  • #20
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “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

  • #21
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

  • #22
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “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

  • #23
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #26
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Unser Leben hängt davon ab, was wir aus dem machen, was aus uns gemacht wurde.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre



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