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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

— Gilles Deleuze, French Philosopher

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

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

— Richard Feynman, American Theoretical Physicist

You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.

— Rahul Dravid, Former Indian cricketer

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

— Ayn Rand, Russian-American Novelist

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

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

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

— Socrates, Greek Philosopher 

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

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

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist
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