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“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
― George Washington

“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”
― William Wordsworth

“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“As Feynman once wrote, "[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is—absurd.”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe

“The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a great truth may be another great truth.”
― Bruce Rosenblum, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
― Richard Dawkins

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
― Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.”
― Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe

“The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.”
― Sean Carroll

“Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“What we see and what we touch Is stuff of dreams and mirages.”
― Śāntideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.”
― James Madison

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos.”
― Katie Mack, The End of Everything

“Diversity is resilience.”
― Juan Pablo Quiñonez, Thrive: Long-Term Wilderness Survival Guide; Skills, Tips, and Gear for Living on the Land

“Modern life can create great confusion and we can forget that humanity is an integral component in the natural world.”
― Ray Mears, Out on the Land: Bushcraft Skills from the Northern Forest

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche