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Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), The Crazy Ape
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.: William Van Horne
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), 1987 CSICOP Keynote Address
Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), The Crazy Ape
The three dots '...' here suppress a lot of detail -- maybe I should have used four dots.: Donald E. Knuth (1938 - )
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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