In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
--Stephen Jay Gould
Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less.
--Jean de la Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
---Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965)
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
--James A. Baldwin
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
--Ralph W. Emerson, (1803-1882)
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
--Winston Churchill
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
--Benjamin Franklin
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.
--Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826)
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
--Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1800-1859)
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
--Bill Cosby
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
--Thomas J. Watson
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
--Erich Fromm
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
-- Voltaire
Great men do not commit murder. Great nations do not start wars.
--William Jennings Bryan
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
--Charles Robert Darwin, The Origin of the Species, (1859)
Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
--Spanish Proverb
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
--Isaac Newton, philosopher and mathematician (1642-1727)
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
--Benjamin Disraeli
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
--Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
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