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“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance”
― Jon Stewart

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Great Minds Discuss Ideas. Average Minds Discuss Events. Small Minds Discuss People”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
― Karl R. Popper

“A theory that explains everything, explains nothing”
― Karl Popper

“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
― Karl Popper

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
― Carl Sagan

“Observation is a dying art.”
― Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick: Interviews

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.”
― Freeman John Dyson, Imagined Worlds

“The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.”
― Freeman Dyson

“If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel

“The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
― Freeman John Dyson

“You know it's true…

Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Tarihimizden iyi bilinen bir hikâye vardır: Padişah III. Mustafa, çağdaşı Alman İmparatoru Büyük Friedrich’in savaşlardaki ve ülke yönetimindeki başarılarını çok iyi falcılara sahip olmasına bağlamaktaydı. Benzer başarılar için kendisine güçlü üç falcı gidermesini isteyen Padişah’a, İmparator; kendi falcılarının “sağlam maliye, adaletli yönetim ve bilime değer verme” olduğunu bildirecektir! s. 337”
― Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Özel

“Yolumun üstünde bir tuzak kurdun,
Birde diyorsun ki: Yürü iznim var.
Cihanda kudretin her şeye hakim,
Beni yürüten sen,
adım günahkar ..”
― Ömer Hayyam

“I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
― Issac Asimov

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! 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. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Öyle bir nehri muazzam gibi cûş etmişsin;
fakat eyvâh, çorak yerde akıb gitmişsin!”
― Tevfik Fikret

“Ve kendi hüsnümü başlardım önce sevmekten.
Bu ruh için bir hak:
Biraz da kendini sevmek değil midir yaşamak!...”
― Tevfik Fikret, Rübab-ı Şikeste

“Nüzhet bana yalan söyledi. Dünyanın hiç bir Nüzhet'i yalan söylememelidir.”
― Peyami Safa, Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu

“İnsan, çektiği ıstırap nispetinde zevk duyar: Ne kadar acıkırsa yemekten, ne kadar yorulursa dinlenmekten, ne kadar ararsa bulmaktan o derece zevk alır.”
― Peyami Safa, Bir Tereddüdün Romanı