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- I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
- Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
- John A. Wheeler
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