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“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“To all those who I do not know, and who live in the worlds where superstition and barbarism are still dominant, and into whose hands I hope this little book may fall, I offer the modest encouragement of an older wisdom. It is in fact this, and not any arrogant preaching that come to us out of the whirlwind: "Die stimme der vernunft ist leise". Yes, The voice of reason is very soft, but it is very persistent.
In this, and in the lives and minds of combatants known and unknown, we repose our chief hope.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“برخی از اطبا می گویند: مالیخولیا از جنّیان است.
برای ما در طب فرقی ندارد که از جن باشد یا نه. ما می گوییم: چه از جن باشد یا نباشد، مزاج بیمار سودایی می شود. پس علت قریبه اش وجود سوداست، بگذار علت العلل سودا، جن باشد.”
― Ibn Sina, القانون في الطب