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I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

— Socrates, Classical Greek Philosopher 

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

— Douglas Adams, English Author

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

— Gilles Deleuze, French Philosopher

That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

— Herbert Simon,American economist

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

— Socrates, Greek Philosopher 

It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher and Scientist

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

— Nelson Mandela, Former South African President
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