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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: doubt, science, science-vs-religion
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    You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,
    “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
    tags: apologies, apologizing, humor, people, taking-advantage
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: neil-degrasse-tyson
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: best, forlorn-hope, perseverance, resolve
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    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
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    John Wooden
    “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
    ― John Wooden
    tags: achievement, acquirement, act, action, activity, attainment, completion, conclusion, deed, doing, energy, enterprise, exertion, feat, fulfullment, labor, occurence, perfection, performance, production, service, success, undertaking, venture, work
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    George Lucas
    “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
    ― George Lucas
    tags: inspiration, star-wars
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    George Lucas
    “No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
    ― George Lucas, The Star Wars Trilogy
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    “Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: focus, illusion, life, understanding
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    ― Richard Feynmann
    tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.”
    ― Richard Feynman
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: education, humor, intelligence, mathematics, statistics
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Carl Sagan
    “The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: indifferent, universe
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: writing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “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
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
    ― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
    tags: death, inspirational, science, wonder
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