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Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have…

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent… — John H. Lienhard
Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea. — Unknown Author
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Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed… — Arthur Koestler

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