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In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a…

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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 words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. — Carol Burnett
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's… — Al Capp
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a… — Thomas Carlyle
The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed… — Helena Bonham Carter
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that… — John Henrik Clarke
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. — Stephen Ambrose
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves… — Rudyard Kipling
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. — Peter Drucker
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or… — Alistair Cooke

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