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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
-- Aristotle Plato

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
-- Mark Twain

"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
-- Luigi Mangione

"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
-- Luigi Mangione

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"Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future."
-- Bourke Cockran

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
-- Ansel Adams

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
-- Ruth Bader Ginsberg

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If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks.

-- Luigi Mangione

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They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.

-- Karl Pilkington

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If you convict someone based on unscientific evidence which is passed off as scientific, aren't you subverting the justice system, or you free somebody on the basis of bogus science.

-- Dr. Vincent Di Maio

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Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

-- Budd Schulberg

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There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

-- Bill Wulf

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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

-- Bill Watterson

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Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

-- Bertrand Russell

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

-- Bertrand Russell

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