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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #3
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.”
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

  • #4
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #5
    Susan Jacoby
    “This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.”
    Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason

  • #6
    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #7
    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #11
    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #12
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #13
    James Randi
    “There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.”
    James Randi

  • #14
    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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

  • #15
    Richard Dawkins
    “Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.”
    Richard Dawkins

  • #16
    Natalie Angier
    “We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.”
    Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography

  • #17
    Pádraic Pearse
    “If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.”
    Pádraig Pearse



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