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Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

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

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

— Socrates, Greek Philosopher 

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo, French Poet

The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

— Robert Frost, American Poet

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

— Jean Gebser, Swiss Philosopher

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 
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