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Martin Gardner has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,…
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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…
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The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should…
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There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully,…
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The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…
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It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind…
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was…
— Russell Baker
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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this…
— Frank Zappa
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I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be…
— Martin Rees
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We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves.…
— Alison Jolly
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The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a…
— Unknown Author
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Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my…
— J M Coetzee
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Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and…
— Peter Singer
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We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee.…
— Caryl Churchill
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I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at…
— Frans de Waal
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It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true…
— Frans de Waal
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Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then]…
— Unknown Author
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I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.
— Mark David Chapman
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