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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries. ”
    ― Richard Feynmann
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Carl Sagan
    “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlling their actions and their speech, we are not aware of this being so. Only one of them is myself, the dreamer. In him I act and speak immediately, while I may be awaiting eagerly and anxiously what another one will reply”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    tags: consciousness, dreams
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    Robert M. Sapolsky
    “I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
    ― Robert Sapolsky
    tags: music, science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: meaning, mystery, philosophy, purpose, uncertainty
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    tags: contradiction
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    Alan W. Watts
    “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom
    1801 likes

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    Richard P. Feynman
    “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
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    Joseph Fort Newton
    “Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
    ― Joseph Fort Newton
    tags: bigotry, bridges, compassion, culture, culture-wars, cultures, empathy, hate, hatred, inspirational, intolerance, love, men, misattributed, misattributed-to-isaac-newton, racism, separation, sympathy, tolerance, understanding, walls
    625 likes

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    Isaac Newton
    “What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
    ― Isaac Newton
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: life, love
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    Carl Sagan
    “Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
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    Timothy Leary
    “Think for yourself. Question authority.”
    ― Timothy Leary
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
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    Charles Darwin
    “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
    ― Charles Darwin
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Charles Darwin
    “We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
    ― CHARLES DARWIN
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Douglas R. Hofstadter
    “In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”
    ― Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
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    Carl Sagan
    “If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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    Carl Sagan
    “Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.

    If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: change, destiny, fate, singularity, the-singularity
    511 likes



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