Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-- Voltaire

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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
-- George Wald (Life and Mind in the Universe)

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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
-- Eric Severeid

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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
-- Ben Stein

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein

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Innovation comes when there is a tender balance between chaos and bureaucracy, and not too much of either.
-- Brewster Kahle

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A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.
-- Stephen C. Johnson

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The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to escape.
-- James Joyce

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