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

— Abraham Lincoln, Former US President

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

— Richard Feynman, American Theoretical Physicist

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.

— Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

— Thomas Hexley, English Biologist

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

— Ben Okri,  Nigerian Poet and Novelist

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

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

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

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

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
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