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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #2
    “If when flying too close to the sun, your wings burn, rebuild them from iron, ingenuity and creativity.”
    Sage Salmon

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #10
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #11
    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    Marie Curie

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #13
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    “Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #17
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #18
    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

  • #19
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    Buckminster Fuller

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
    "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
    "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
    "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #21
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #22
    Michael Crichton
    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    Michael Crichton, State of Fear

  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
    Douglas Adams

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “God does not play dice with the universe.”
    Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    George Orwell
    “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #28
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Galileo Galilei
    “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
    Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina



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