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- 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
- Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- There are too many people, and too few human beings.
- Robert Zend
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