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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director

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

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. 

— Rahul Dravid, Former Indian cricketer

I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.

— Ratan Tata, Indian Industrialist

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

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

— Jean Gebser, Swiss Philosopher

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom

—  A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, Former Indian President

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

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

— George Orwell, English Novelist
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