"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame & Degradation in the '80's)

"Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
— Samuel Johnson

"Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this."
— Leo Tolstoy

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of it's sons."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world."
— Marcel Proust

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. "
— Dorothy Neville-Rolfe

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. "
— Japanese Proverb

"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit"
— David Suzuki

"You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

""Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
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— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion."
— Carl Sagan

"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds."
— Carl Sagan

"“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.”"
— Carl Sagan

". . . I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves."
— Carl Sagan

"But I could be wrong."
— Carl Sagan

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
— Carl Sagan

"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time............. Cosmos"
— Carl Sagan

"I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely."
— Richard Buckminster Fuller

"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete."
— Richard Buckminster Fuller

"I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless."
— Richard Buckminster Fuller (I Seem to Be a Verb)

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
— Richard Buckminster Fuller

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. "
— R. Buckminster Fuller

"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked"
— Buckminster Fuller

"I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem."
— Buckminster Fuller

"God is a Verb."
— Buckminster Fuller

"Scientist believe in things, not in person "
— Marie Curie

"We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something. "
— Marie Curie

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
— Marie Curie

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful."
— Marie Curie

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
— Marie Curie

"All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child."
— Marie Curie

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
— Marcus Aurelius

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
— Marcus Aurelius

"Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move the Earth."
— Archimedes

"The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little. And again and again swift oblivion, the thief of knowledge and the enemy of memory, makes a void of the mind, in the course of time, even what we learn we lose."
— Nicholas Copernicus

"Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. "
— Nikola Tesla

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. "
— Nikola Tesla

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
— Nikola Tesla

"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."
— Nikola Tesla

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
— Nikola Tesla

"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings."
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— Tesla

"I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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— -Jonas Salk

""if all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on
Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth,
within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."
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— Biologist Jonas Salk

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
— Galileo Galilei

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
— Galileo Galilei

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
— Galileo Galilei