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An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.

— James Branch Cabell, American Author

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

— Gilles Deleuze, French 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

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

— Socrates, Greek Philosopher 

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

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

— Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

— Jane Austen, English Novelist

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
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