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

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Other categories: Richness and Money

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

Larry Gelbart

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

Susan Sontag, (Time, December 11, 1989)

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

Homer Adkins

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

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Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

7. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

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

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Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

9. "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"

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Question and Problem

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

Ernest Rutherford

11. "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"

Other categories: Question and Problem

12. "Our technology has surpassed our humanity."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Human

13. "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

Other categories: Nature and Animals

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

Edwin Powell Hubble

Other categories: Human

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

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Human

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

Benjamin Haydon, "Correspondence and Table-Talk"

Other categories: Art and Culture

17. "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"

Other categories: Egoism

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

Carl Sagan

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

19. "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

Other categories: Education

20. "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

Other categories: Various

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

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Other categories: Question and Problem

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

Rex Stout, "Death Of A Doxy"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various

23. "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"

Other categories: Human

24. "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

Other categories: Various -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Khalil Gibran

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

27. "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"

Other categories: Various

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

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

Other categories: Various

29. "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

Other categories: Art and Culture

30. "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"

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Question and Problem

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

Werner von Braun

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

William James

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

33. "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"

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

35. "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"

Other categories: Various

36. "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

Other categories: Human

37. "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

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity

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

Bertrand Russell

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Reality and Imagination

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

40. "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

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

42. "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"

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

43. "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

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

44. "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

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Marshall McLuhan

Other categories: Human

46. "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"

Other categories: God and Religion -:- Normality and Madness

47. "God made integers, all else is the work of man."

Leopold Kronecker

48. "Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"

Iris Murdoch, "The Book and the Brotherhood"

49. "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac

Other categories: Art and Culture

50. "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

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