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    Stephen Hawking
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: inspirational, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
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    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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    Carl Sagan
    “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 something like that happened in politics or religion.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: politics, religion, science
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
    tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation
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    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
    tags: reading, science
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Albert Einstein
    “Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

    Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Carl Sagan
    “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: atheism, science
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    Carl Sagan
    “I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: atheism, education, religion, science
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    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
    ― Claude Levi-Strauss
    tags: questions, science
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    John Lubbock
    “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
    ― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
    tags: beauty, clouds, grass, idleness, inspirational, nature, rest, science, sky, summer, time, trees, water
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    Eoin Colfer
    “A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
    tags: holly-short, technology
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: technology
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    Omar N. Bradley
    “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
    ― Omar N. Bradley
    tags: ethics, humanism, humanity, imperialism, nuclear-weapons, peace, science, technology, war
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    Philip Pullman
    “The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.”
    ― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
    tags: technological-bias, technology, tools
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    Robert Bloch
    “Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.”
    ― Robert Bloch, Psycho
    tags: magic, technology
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    Terence McKenna
    “The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: answer, problem
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.”
    ― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Flight Of The Eagle
    tags: answers, doubts, knowledge, problem, questions, understanding
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Elie Wiesel
    “He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.”
    ― Elie Wiesel, Night
    tags: questioning, questions
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    Criss Jami
    “Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: challenge, children, curiosity, education, history, humility, imagination, inquiry, intelligence, knowledge, not-knowing, philosophy, questions, science, theology, uncertainty, wisdom
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    John Green
    “There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: problems, questions, strength
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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    William Blake
    “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: english-poet, inspirational, knowledge, willpower
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    Will Durant
    “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
    ― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
    tags: knowledge, life, misattributed-to-kant, paraphrasing-herbert-spencer, science
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  • #29
    Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: knowledge
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: balance, equilibrium, evil, good, knowledge, taoism
    477 likes



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