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

— Thomas Edison, American Inventor

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

People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

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

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

— Thomas Pynchon, American Novelist

Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.

— Abraham Lincoln, Former US President

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

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind. 

— Ben Okri,  Nigerian Poet and Novelist

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

— Robert Frost, American Poet
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