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1. "Those who think installing Linux is difficult obviously never tried to understand women."

Anon.

Quotations about: Woman and Man


2. "Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon

Quotations about: God and Religion


3. "Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind."

Marston Bates


4. "The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another."

Anon.


5. "Econometrics have successfully predicted 14 of the last 3 recessions."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money


6. "If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."

Larry Gelbart

Quotations about: Art and Culture


7. "Books are ... funny little portable pieces of thought."

Susan Sontag, (Time, December 11, 1989)

Quotations about: Art and Culture


8. "Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target."

Homer Adkins


9. "Most great discoveries start with making a mistake."

Anon.

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes



10. "Only small minds are impressed by large numbers."

Arthur C. Clarke

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement


11. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes


12. "Psychology - the art of turning stupidity into illness."

Anon.

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Wisdom and Stupidity


13. "Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Question and Problem


14. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Ernest Rutherford


15. "That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."

Jacob Bronowski, "The Ascent of Man"

Quotations about: Question and Problem


16. "Our technology has surpassed our humanity."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Human


17. "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."

Jacob Bronowski

Quotations about: Nature and Animals


18. "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."

Edwin Powell Hubble

Quotations about: Human


19. "Men have become tools of their tools."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Human


20. "The only legitimate artists in England are the architects."

Benjamin Haydon, "Correspondence and Table-Talk"

Quotations about: Art and Culture


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21. "Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Minority Report: H.L. Mencken`s Notebooks"

Quotations about: Egoism


22. "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

Carl Sagan

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance


23. "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

Jim Rohn

Quotations about: Education


24. "Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them."

Joseph Henry

Quotations about: Various


25. "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Quotations about: Question and Problem


26. "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

Rex Stout, "Death Of A Doxy"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity -:- Various


27. "Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Minority Report"

Quotations about: Human


28. "All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan

Quotations about: Various -:- Knowledge, Ignorance


29. "Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion."

Khalil Gibran

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance


30. "Experiments are mediators between nature and idea."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals


31. "Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Quotations about: Various



32. "Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

Quotations about: Various


33. "Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Art and Culture


34. "Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

David Cronenberg, "Cronenberg on Cronenberg"

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Question and Problem


35. "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."

Werner von Braun


36. "As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

William James

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination


37. "The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Wilhelm Meister's Travels"

Quotations about: Art and Culture


38. "If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance


39. "If words were invented to conceal thought, I think that newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Various


40. "Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Human


41. "There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."

Raymond Chandler

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity


42. "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Reality and Imagination



43. "Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement


44. "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

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals


45. "Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy


46. "From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance


47. "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Sir William Bragg

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance


48. "Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Wisdom and Stupidity


49. "The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."

Marshall McLuhan

Quotations about: Human


50. "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy-the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "A Treatise on Toleration"

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Normality and Madness

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