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However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our… — Walter E. Williams
Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems. — Ronald Reagan
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars… — P.J. O'Rourke
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. — Brian Tracy
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. — Wallace D. Wattles
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth… — Pope John Paul II
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.… — Johannes Kepler
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but… — Werner Heisenberg
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must… — Benjamin Franklin
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than… — Norbert Wiener
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack… — John Desmond Bernal
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of… — John B. S. Haldane
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The… — Werner Heisenberg
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one… — Francis Bacon
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not… — Richard Dawkins
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from… — Anaxagoras

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