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- Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech at the House of Commons, January 24, 1860
- Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
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