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- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
- Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), "The Master builder", 1892, act 3
- Either war is obsolete or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
- History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916
- If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Telegram, 24 May 1946
- How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
- The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
- Sir Francis Darwin (1848 - 1925), Eugenics Review, April 1914
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