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#1

“There we were, a small bunch of rather bright and fortunate young people, thinking ourselves somehow special and exceptional, but really very naive.”
― Fritz Leiber

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#2

“If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.”
― Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage

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#3

“I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.”
― Roger Zelazny, This Immortal

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#4

“There are not two cultures, only half-cultured individuals”
― Judith Merril, The Year's Best SF 10

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#5

“[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: belief

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#6

“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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#7

“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: totalitarianism

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#8

“Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?”
― David Hume

tags: atheism

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#9

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.”
― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

tags: religion, truth

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#10

“Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.”
― Steve Jones, The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Future

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#11

“It may be that our role on this planet
is not to worship God--but to create him.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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#12

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, inspirational

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#13

“Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common sense.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

tags: science

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#14

“...our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.”
― Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

tags: brain, science, universe

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#15

“[T]he worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is to try to go into them a bit deeper.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

tags: knowledge

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#16

“credit is something that should be given to others. If you are in a position to give credit to yourself, then you do not need it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

tags: credit

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#17

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: god, rational, religion, thinking

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#18

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: education, ethics, morality, needs, religion, sociality, sympathy

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#19

“If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.”
― George Polya, Mathematical Discovery on Understanding, Learning, and Teaching Problem Solving, Volume I

tags: the_bright_forever_by_lee_martin

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#20

“The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.”
― George Pólya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

tags: communication, style

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#21

“In order to solve this differential equation you look at it till a solution occurs to you.”
― George Pólya

tags: best-qoute-ever

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#22

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

tags: euclid, gambit, math, mathematics, reductio-ad-absurdum, risk, science, strategy, weapons

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