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  • #1
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #2
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

    [Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]
    John F. Kennedy

  • #3
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #4
    Carl Sagan
    “I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #5
    Richard Dawkins
    “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
    Richard Dawkins

  • #6
    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

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

  • #8
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #9
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  • #10
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #11
    “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #12
    “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

  • #13
    “Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
    Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #17
    “I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zones.”
    Horacio Jones

  • #18
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #19
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    John      Webster
    “There's nothing of so infinite vexation as man's own thoughts”
    John Webster, The White Devil

  • #24
    “Nullius in verba”
    "Take nobody's word for it" is the motto of the Royal Society

  • #25
    Shel Silverstein
    “She had blue skin,
    And so did he.
    He kept it hid
    And so did she.
    They searched for blue
    Their whole life through,
    Then passed right by-
    And never knew.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #26
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #27
    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

  • #28
    Anthony Hopkins
    “We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”
    Anthony Hopkins

  • #29
    George Pólya
    “If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.”
    George Polya, Mathematical Discovery on Understanding, Learning, and Teaching Problem Solving, Volume I

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
    Mark Twain



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