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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

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

— Thomas Pynchon, American Novelist

Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

— Samuel Butler, English Author

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

— David Packard, Co- founder of HP

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

— Thomas Edison, American Inventor

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.

— Richard Feynman, American Theoretical 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 

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science Communicator

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
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