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“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

“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

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

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

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“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

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

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“في انتظارِكِ، لا أستطيعُ انتظارَكِ
لا أَستطيعُ قراءةَ دوستويفسكي
ولا الاستماعَ إلي أُمِّ كلثوم أَو ماريّا كالاس
وغيرهما
في انتظارك تمشي العقاربُ في ساعةِ اليد نحو اليسار
إلي زَمَنٍ لا مكانَ لَهُ
في انتظارك لم أنتظرك، انتظرتُ الأزَلْ”
― محمود درويش, حالة حصار

“أنت لست لي .. ولكنّي أحبك .. ما زلت أحبك .. وحنيني إليك يقتلني .. وكرامتي تمنعني وكل شيء يحول بيني وبينك !”
― محمود درويش

“هذا البحر لي
هذا الهواء الرطب لي
واسمي وان أخطأت لفظ اسمي على التابوت - لي ..
أما أنا - وقد امتلات بكل أسباب الرحييل
فلست لي .
أنا لست لي”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“لاتقل لي : ليتني بائع خبز في الجزائر
لأغني مع ثائر !
لاتقل لي : ليتني راعي مواشٍ في اليمن
لأغني لانتفاضات الزمن !
لاتقل لي : ليتني عامل مقهى في هفانا
لأغني لانتصارات الحزانى !
لاتقل لي : ليتني أعمل في أسوان حمالاً صغير
لأغني للصخور
ياصديقي ! لن يصب النيل في الفولغا
ولا الكونغو ، ولا الأردن ، في نهر الفرات !
كل نهر ، وله نبع ..ومجرى ..وحياة!

ياصديقي !..أرضنا ليست بعاقر
كل أرض ، ولها ميلادها
كل فجر ، وله موعد ثائر!”
― محمود درويش

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

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

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson