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Quote[1]="It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.<br>- Aristotle";
Quote[2]="The difference between reality and illusion lies not in definitions, but in degrees of consistency.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[3]="Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.<br>- Arthur C. Clarke";
Quote[4]="The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.<br>- Konstantin Tsiokolvsky";
Quote[5]="I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.<br>- Stephen Jay Gould";
Quote[6]="I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.<br>- Galileo Galilei.";
Quote[7]="If our schools are to teach the skills which people need in life, then let them teach how to seek knowledge, that we are all more alike than different, and that with advantage comes responsibilty.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[8]="The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.<br>- William Lloyd George";
Quote[9]="It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.<br>- James Thurber";
Quote[10]="The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.<br>- Niels Bohr";
Quote[11]="You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.<br>- Albert Einstein.";
Quote[12]="The most independence results from knowing where to depend.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[13]="Some might say that the purpose of technology is to fit the universe to our needs. I, on the other hand, say that the purpose of technology is to enable us to grow into the universe.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[14]="There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.<br>- Carl Sagan";
Quote[15]="The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.<br>- John Maynard Keynes";
Quote[16]="Chance favors the prepared mind.<br>- Louis Pasteur";
Quote[17]="Mathematics may be defined as the subject where we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.<br>- Bertrand Russell";
Quote[18]="If we propose to erect a building, we should assure ourselves to the solidity of the foundations. It is, indeed, the common fate of human reason to complete its speculative structures as speedily as may be, and only afterwards to enquire whether the foundations are reliable.<br>- Immanuel Kant";
Quote[19]="When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others.<br>- Bertrand Russell";
Quote[20]="All things excellent are as difficult as they  are rare...<br>- Spinoza";
Quote[21]="As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.<br>- Voltaire";
Quote[22]="There is one word which, if applied to the decisions we make about how to deal with the world, our fellows, and our own beliefs, would thrust humanity into a golden age. Integrity.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[23]="They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.<br>- Benjamin Franklin";
Quote[24]="The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.<br>- Anonymous";
Quote[25]="Don't ever expect reverence while you live, for only the living can haunt people. The most revered thinkers are safely buried.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[26]="William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt.' ... What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.<br>- Bertrand Russell";
Quote[27]="I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam<br>- Paul Broca";
Quote[28]="We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers<br>- Carl Sagan";
Quote[29]="It takes courage to be afraid<br>- Montaigne";
Quote[30]="Human history is a chronolog of minority against minority. The majority of humankind follows the course of least resistance. If you would matter to history, first dare to think, to make honest choices, and to be within a minority.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[31]="The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.<br>- Carl Sagan, <i>Pale Blue Dot</i>";
Quote[32]="One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.<br>- John Locke, 1690";
Quote[33]="A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.<br>- Robert A. Heinlein";
Quote[34]="Some would say that common sense predicates common justice. My answer would be that common sense tells us that the Earth is flat, the sun rises, and that the living speak directly with the dead. In order to enjoy the blessings of justice, let us first firmly believe in common humanity, for the recognition of ourselves in others is the foundation of all civil progress.<br>- Bruce Bowden<br><br>Common humanity reminds us what we share -- Uncommon humanity reminds us to exceed ourselves<br>- Michael McNamara";
Quote[35]="The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.<br>- Mahatma Gandhi";
Quote[36]="Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.<br>- Albert Einstein, March 24, 1954";
Quote[37]="If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.<br>- Albert Einstein, June 27, 1920";
Quote[38]="I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace...<br>- Albert Einstein, 1931 interview";
Quote[39]="The value of achievement lies in the achieving.<br>- Albert Einstein, October 28, 1950";
Quote[40]="The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of Man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.<br>- Albert Einstein, April 11, 1943";
Quote[41]="The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.<br>- Albert Einstein, <i>On the Method of Theoretical Physics</i>, 1933";
Quote[42]="The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons you will become a target for attack.<br>- Albert Einstein, January 3, 1953";
Quote[43]="Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.<br>- Albert Einstein, from address draft, April 1955";
Quote[44]="Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.<br>- Albert Einstein, from B. Cline: <i>Men Who Make a New Physics</i>";
Quote[45]="Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. <br>- Charles Darwin";
Quote[46]="What one relishes, nourishes.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1734";
Quote[47]="The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1733";
Quote[48]="If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1738";
Quote[49]="As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1738";
Quote[50]="Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1733";
Quote[51]="An empty bag cannot stand upright.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1740";
Quote[52]="In an individual's life there are opportunities without awareness and awareness without opportunity. Both have been my lot and, though still happy in my measure of things, I doubt that I'll be remembered very long after I'm gone. Yet I also recall that history encompasses us all, and that all of us contribute our share to how history will come out in the end. Recalling this, I rejoice in the good fortunes of good people. As long as we are bound to this one small world we live and die and are remembered together. We are family and must look after one another, though others be great or small and though we may ourselves be great or small. We are one story, told in many ways.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[53]="Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.<br>- Albert Einstein to a Japanese scholar (1923), from <i>Ideas and Opinions</i>";
Quote[54]="We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity - and shape our lives accordingly.<br>- Albert Einstein, <i>New York Times,</i> May 4, 1946";
Quote[55]="Humans are really not very good at thinking skeptically. Evolution, ironically, has us all too willing to believe leaders, subserve to authority, accept fantasy as reality. We have to learn to think, and it’s hard. By the time we’re adults, it’s even harder.<br>- Phil Plait, <i>Bad Astronomy</i> Blog, 2005";
Quote[56]="Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1739";
Quote[57]="Thou hadst better eat salt with the philosophers of Greece than sugar with the courtiers of Italy.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1740";
Quote[58]="The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.<br>- Benjamin Franklin, <i>Poor Richard,</i> 1746";
Quote[59]="If I were a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler, in the hope of finding that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.<br>- Albert Einstein, <i>The Reporter,</i> November 18, 1954";
Quote[60]="There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know that there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.<br>- United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, February 12, 2002";
Quote[61]="There is, after all, something eternal that lies beyond the reach of the hands of fate and of all human delusions. And such eternals lie closer to an older person than to a younger one who oscillates between fear and hope.<br>- Albert Einstein to Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians, March 20, 1936";
Quote[62]="The meaning of the word 'Truth' varies according to whether we deal with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition, or a scientific theory. 'Religious truth' conveys nothing clear to me at all.<br>- Albert Einstein to a Japanese scholar, 1923";
Quote[63]="An event is merely the bridge between prelude and consequence.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[64]="My love for justice and the striving to contribute toward the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.<br>- Albert Einstein to F. Lentz, August 20, 1949";
Quote[65]="The war is won, but the peace is not.<br>- Albert Einstein, address title, December 10, 1945";
Quote[66]="The mystical trend of our present time, especially evident in the enthusiastic growth of so-called theosophy and spiritualism, is to me a symptom of confusion and weakness.<br>- Albert Einstein to Lilli Halpern-Neuda, February 5, 1921";
Quote[67]="I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.<br>- Albert Einstein, from <i>The New York Times</i>, August 12, 1945";
Quote[68]="Our death is not an end if we have lived on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us: our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.<br>- Albert Einstein to widow of H. Kamerlingh-Onnes, February 25, 1926";
Quote[69]="The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to assure the unhindered development of the individual.... That is why I consider myself to be particularly fortunate to be an American.<br>- Albert Einstein, from 'Message for Germany,' December 7, 1941";
Quote[70]="Accomplishment is a work in progress.<br>- Bruce Bowden";
Quote[71]="I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.<br>- Albert Einstein, to B. Croce, June 7, 1944";

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