Wisdom in SpaceAny fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon
All the [Islamic fundamentalist] rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to. Rejection, therefore, is not absolute rejection. It is also, for the community as a whole, a way of ceasing to strive intellectually. It is to be parasitic; parasitism is one of the unacknowledged fruits of fundamentalism.
-- V. S. Naipaul (Among the Believers)
Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world.
-- Egon Schiele
One today is worth two tomorrows.
-- Benjamin Franklin
There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
-- Enrico Fermi
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.
-- Patti Smith (Gloria/Horses)
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
-- Thomas Paine