CARL SAGAN
"A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge."
-Carl Sagan,
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
--Carl Sagan
"It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness."
--Carl Sagan
"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
--Carl Sagan
"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 something like that happened in politics or religion."
--Carl Sagan
"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
--Carl Sagan
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
--Carl Sagan
"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right.
-- Carl Sagan
"For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgoten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxys than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers."
-- Carl Sagan
"The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit."
-- Carl Sagan
"The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out."
-- Carl Sagan
"...the scientific cast of mind examines the world critically, as if many alternative worlds might exist, as if other things might be here which are not. Then we are forced to ask why what we see is present and not something else. Why are the Sun and moon and the planets spheres? Why not pyramids, or cubes, or dodecahedra? Why not irregular, jumbly shapes? Why so symetrical, worlds? If you spend any time spinning hypotheses, checking to see whether they make sence, whether they conform to what else we know. Thinking of tests you can pose to substantiate or deflate hypotheses, you will find yourself doing science."
-- Carl Sagan
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."
--Carl Sagan.
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
--Carl Sagan.
"When you make the finding yourself--even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light--you never forget it."
--Carl Sagan.
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
--Carl Sagan.
"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny."
--Carl Sagan.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR....................................................................................
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What this power is I cannot say; All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
--William Shakespear
"Pain pays the income of each precious thing."
-- William Shakespear
"Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste. Wings and no eyes figure unheady haste. And therfore is love said to be a child. Because in choice, he is oft beguilded."- Helena from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
-- William Shakespeare
The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
--William Shakespear
Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
--William Shakespear
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
--William Shakespear
"Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be."
--William Shakespeare
"It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced."
--William Shakespeare
"Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits."
--William Shakespeare
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
--William Shakespeare
"In time we hate that which we often fear."
--William Shakespeare
"He is not great who is not greatly good."
--William Shakespeare
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer."
--William Shakespeare
"There is a history in all men's lives."
--William Shakespeare
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
--William Shakespeare
"It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit."
--William Shakespeare
"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court."
--William Shakespeare
"There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself."
--William Shakespeare
" My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
--William Shakespeare
"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief."
--William Shakespeare
"In false quarrels there is no true valor."
--William Shakespeare
"Strong reasons make strong actions."
--William Shakespeare
"Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
--William Shakespeare
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
--William Shakespeare
"Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug."
--William Shakespeare
"It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."
--William Shakespeare
"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
--William Shakespeare
"I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad."
--William Shakespeare
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Albert Einstein
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ALBERT EINSTEIN
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life,
perpetuating itself through all eternity; to reflect upon the marvelous
structure of the Universe; and to try humbly to comprehend even an
infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature."
-Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is worth living."
-- Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. "
-- AlbertEinstein
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
--Albert Einstein
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein
"God does not play dice with the universe."
--Albert Einstein
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
--Albert Einstein
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
--Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
--Albert Einstein
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
--Albert Einstein
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science"
--Albert Einstein
"Watch the stars, and from them learn.
--Albert Einstein
"Gravitation can not be held resposible for people falling in love"
--Albert Einstein
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
--Albert Einstein
"The important thing is to not stop questioning. "
--Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. "
--Albert Einstein
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