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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, compulsive voyagers, ignorant…

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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…
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…
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,…
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…
Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…
The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should…
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully,…
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…
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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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could… — Josephine Baker
There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore… — Meg Cabot
I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states. — John Henrik Clarke
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose… — Christopher Columbus
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens,… — Wilma Rudolph
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens. — Ed Thigpen
I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans. — Dusty Rhodes
I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking… — Christopher Buckley

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