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“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.”
― The Meaning of Life
― The Meaning of Life
“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
― The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
― The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
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