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The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Writer

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

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

— E.M. Forster, English Novelist

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

— Niels Bohr, Danish physicist

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

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

— Christopher Hitchens, Author

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

— Charles Dickens, English Writer
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