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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #2
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #3
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    Frederick Lewis Donaldson

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

  • #6
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #7
    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #8
    Carl Sagan
    “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    Richard Feynmann

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Vladimir Lenin
    “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

  • #15
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #16
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #17
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #18
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #19
    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    Plato

  • #20
    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    Albert Camus

  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #22
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #23
    Isaac Newton
    “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #24
    Isaac Newton
    “Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.”
    Sir Isaac Newton

  • #25
    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    Isaac Asimov

  • #26
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.”
    Richard Feynman

  • #27
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. ”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #28
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”
    Richard Feynman

  • #29
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #30
    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    Socrates



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