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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 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

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

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

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

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

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

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

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

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

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
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