Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 31, 2025
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)  
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)  
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
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Dalton Camp  
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