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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

— Nelson Mandela, Former South African President

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

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

— Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Artist

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

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.

— Thomas Jefferson, Former US President

It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

— Marie Curie, Physicist and Chemist

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
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