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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

— Richard Feynman, American Theoretical Physicist

If you are going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill, Former UK Prime Minister

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

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.

— Heath Ledger, Actor

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

— Samuel Butler, English Author

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

— George Orwell, English Novelist

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

— Georg W.H. Hegel, German 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

Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

— Mary Doria Russell, American Novelist

I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

— J.K.Rowling, Author
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