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“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
― Groucho marx

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“Niz ulicu se spušta dvadesetosmica, verovatno poslednja današnja. U njoj samo jedan čovek: sedi uz prozor, kiseo i usamljen kao poslednji krastavac u tegli.”
― Dejan Tiago-Stanković, Lisabonske priče

“Education isn't something you can finish.”
― Isaac Asimov

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Wer beruflich mit Musik zu tun hat, müsste dazu erzogen werden, Sinn dafür zu entwickeln, sich auch vielen anderen Wissensbereichen zuzuwenden, die nicht direkt mit Musik zu tun haben. Die technische Beherrschung eines Instruments, die für einen Berufsmusiker wesentlich ist, hat nur dann einen Sinn, wenn sie mit einem allgemeinen Erkenntnisprozess einhergeht, zu dem eine breite Basis von Wissen und Kultur gehören.”
― Daniel Barenboim, Musik ist alles und alles ist Musik: Erinnerungen und Einsichten

“Kada nauka ukaže na propuste u ovakvim romantičnim malverzacijama obično od sledbenika takvih ideja bude dočekana sa negodovanjem kao neko ko pokušava da sruši njihov zamak u pesku. Iako rušenje zamka u pesku može delovati okrutno, ono je tu da nas zaštiti od obmana, a osim toga nauka nam u tom procesu uvek nudi i svoju verziju priče koja je neizostavno još čarobnija. Istina, njenu priču je ponekada teže ispratiti, jer zahteva da se upoznamo sa fizikom, hemijom, matematikom, ali trud koji uložimo uvek je višestruko nagrađen.”
― Bojan Džodan, Paralaksa

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
― Alfred Adler

“No, what makes mad scientists mad isn’t their lack of logic or reason or scientific acumen. It’s that they do science too well, to the exclusion of their humanity.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science