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- Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
- Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
- Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone
- Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- Language is the source of misunderstandings.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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