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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

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.

— Heath Ledger, Actor

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Artist

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

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

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

An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.

— James Branch Cabell, American Author

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

— Douglas Adams, English Author

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

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist
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