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- A joke's a very serious thing.
- Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
- I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
- Zach Braff
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
- Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
- Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
- Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
- Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
- The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
- As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
- H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines
- Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
- Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
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