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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

— Max Planck, German Theoretical Physicist

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director

You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.

— Robert Pirsig, American Writer

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Writer

You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.

— Robert Heinlein, American Author

People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.

— Mark Ruffalo, Hollywood Actor

Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.

— Abraham Lincoln, Former US President
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