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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

— Christopher Hitchens, Author

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

— Herbert Simon,American economist

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.

— Heisenberg, German Theoretical Physicist

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Artist

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

— Ayn Rand, Russian-American Novelist

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

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

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

— George Orwell, English Novelist

Every cause produces more than one effect.

— Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
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