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

“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic scholars as accessible today as they were then.”
― Jim Al-Khalili

“For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.”
― Jim Al-Khalili

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“اعلموا أيها القراء الكرام أن السخرية ثلاثة أنواع: السخرية من الذات وهي سخرية المتواضع، وسخرية من الأقوياء وهي سخرية الشجعان، والسخرية من الضعفاء وهي سخرية الأنذال”
― غازي بن عبد الرحمن القصيبي

“قد يكون تحطيمك لصنم ما، تشييد لصنم أعظم.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, عاشق لعار التاريخ

“ولا يستطيع أعقل الناس أن يعملَ عمل أجرأ الناس ، كما لا يستطيع أجرأ الناس أن يعمل أعمال أعقل الناس . فبأعمال المجانين والعقلاء عرفنا مقدارهما من صحّة أذهانهما وفسادها ، وباختلاف أعمال الأطفال والكهول عرفنا مقدارهما في الضعف والقوّة ، وفي الجهل والمعرفة . وبمثل ذلك فَصَلنا بين الجماد والحيوان ، والعَالِم وأعلمَ منه ، والجاهل وأجهل منه .”
― عمرو بن بحر الجاحظ, الحيوان

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
― Bill Gates

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“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

“نحن لا نتعود يا أبي إلا إذا مات شيء فينا، وتصور حجم ما مات فينا حتي تعودنا على كل ما حولنا.”
― ممدوح عدوان, حيونة الإنسان

“اختر صديقك فإنه يكتب معك حاضرك ومستقبلك ”
― سلمان بن فهد العودة

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

“Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they’ve become culturally entrenched—once they’ve become tribal badges of honor—are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people.”
― Joshua D. Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations.... Without evildoers there would have been no Archipelago.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

“Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: “The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“قال المهلهل التغلبي يرثي أخاه كليبا :

أَهَاجَ قَذَاءَ عَيْنِي الإِذكَارُ
هُدُوّاً فَالدُّمُوعُ لَهَا انْحِدَارُ
وَصَارَ اللَّيْلُ مُشْتَمِلاً عَلَيْنَا
كَأَنَّ اللَّيْلَ لَيْسَ لَهُ نَهَارُ
وَبِتُّ أُرَاقِبُ الْجَوْزَاءَ حَتَّى
تَقَارَبَ مِنْ أَوَائِلِها انْحِدَارُ
أُصَرفُ مُقْلَتِي فِي إِثْرِ قَوْمٍ
تَبَايَنَتِ الْبِلاَدُ بِهِمْ فَغَارُوا
وَأَبْكِي وَالنُّجُومُ مُطَلعَاتٌ
كَأَنْ لَمْ تَحْوِهَا عَني الْبِحَارُ
عَلَى مَنْ لَوْ نُعيت وَكَانَ حَيّاً
لَقَادَ الخَيْلَ يَحْجُبُهَا الغُبَارُ
دَعَوْتُكَ يَا كُلَيْبُ فَلَمْ تُجِبْنِي
وَكَيْفَ يُجِيبُنِي الْبَلَدُ القِفَارُ
أَجِبْنِي يَا كُلَيْبُ خَلاَكَ ذَمٌّ
ضَنِينَاتُ النُّفُوسِ لَهَا مَزَارُ
أَجِبْنِي يَا كُلَيْبُ خَلاَكَ ذَمٌّ
لَقَدْ فُجِعَتْ بِفَارِسِهَا نِزَارُ
سَقَاكَ الْغَيْثُ إِنَّكَ كُنْتَ غَيْثاً
وَيُسْراً حِينَ يُلْتَمَسُ الْيَسَارُ
أَبَتْ عَيْنَايَ بَعْدَكَ أَنْ تَكُفَّا
كَأَنَّ غَضَا الْقَتَادِ لَهَا شِفَارُ
وَإِنَّكَ كُنْتَ تَحْلُمُ عَنْ رِجَالٍ
وَتَعْفُو عَنْهُمُ وَلَكَ اقْتِدَارُ
وَتَمْنَعُ أَنْ يَمَسَّهُمُ لِسَانٌ
مَخَافَةَ مَنْ يُجِيرُ وَلاَ يُجَارُ
وَكُنْتُ أَعُدُّ قُرْبِي مِنْكَ رِبْحاً
إِذَا مَا عَدَّتِ الربْحَ التجَارُ
فَلاَ تَبْعَدْ فَكُلٌّ سَوْفَ يَلْقَى
شَعُوباً يَسْتَدِيرُ بِهَا الْمَدَارُ
يَعِيشُ المَرْءُ عِنْدَ بَنِي أَبِيهِ
وَيُوشِكُ أَنْ يَصِيرَ بِحَيْثُ صَارُوا
أَرَى طُولَ الْحَيَاةِ وَقَدْ تَوَلَّى
كَمَا قَدْ يُسْلَبُ الشَّيْءُ المُعَارُ
كَأَنِّي إذْ نَعَى النَّاعِي كُلَيْباً
تَطَايَرَ بَيْنَ جَنْبَيَّ الشَّرَارُ
فَدُرْتُ وَقَدْ عَشِي بَصَرِي عَلَيْهِ
كَمَا دَارَتْ بِشَارِبِهَا العُقَارُ
سَأَلْتُ الْحَيَّ أَيْنَ دَفَنْتُمُوهُ
فَقَالُوا لِي بِسَفْحِ الْحَي دَارُ
فَسِرْتُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ بَلَدِي حَثِيثاً
وَطَارَ النَّوْمُ وَامْتَنَعَ القَرَارُ
وَحَادَتْ نَاقَتِي عَنْ ظِل قَبْرٍ
ثَوَى فِيهِ المَكَارِمُ وَالْفَخَارُ
لَدَى أَوْطَانِ أَرْوَعَ لَمْ يَشِنْهُ
وَلَمْ يَحْدُثْ لَهُ فِي النَّاسِ عَارُ
أَتَغْدُوا يَا كُلَيْبُ مَعِي إِذَا مَا
جَبَانُ الْقَوْمِ انْجاهُ الْفِرَارُ
أَتَغْدُوا يا كليبُ معي إذا ما
خُلُوقُ القومِ يشحذُها الشفَارُ
أَقُولُ لِتَغْلِبٍ وَالْعِزُّ فِيهَا
أَثِيروهَا لِذَلِكُمُ انْتِصَارُ
تَتَابَعَ إِخْوَتِي وَمَضَوْا لأَمْرٍ
عَلَيْهِ تَتَابَعَ الْقَوْمُ الحِسَارُ
خُذِ الْعَهْدَ الأَكِيدَ عَلَيَّ عُمْرِي
بِتَرْكِي كُلَّ مَا حَوَتِ الديَارُ
وَهَجْرِي الْغَانِيَاتِ وَشُرْبَ كَأْسٍ
وَلُبْسِي جُبَّةً لاَتُسْتَعَارُ
وَلَسْتُ بِخَالِعٍ دِرْعِي وَسَيْفِي
إِلَى أَنْ يَخْلَعَ اللَّيْلَ النَّهَارُ”
― أحمد الهاشمي, جواهر الأدب في أدبيات لغة العرب #2