Quotes
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Think Different
‘Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holees. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t…
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Of God and Men
‘Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men.‘― Paul Ramsey
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Science and Method
‘The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and het takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.‘― Henry Poincare, Science & Method, 1908
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What might have been
‘It’s no use thinking of the chap you might have been.‘― James Clerk Maxwell
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Camerado !
This is not a book;Who touchesthis,touchesa WoMan: (Is it night?are we herealone?) It is Iyou hold,And whoholds you; I springfromthe pagesintoyourarms …― Walt Whitman
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Karl Marx
Who rushes behind with wild bluster ? A swarthy fellow from Trier, a vigorous monster. He walks not, he hops not, he leaps on his heals And raves, full of rage, as if he wanted to seize The broad canopy of heaven, and pull it down to earth, His arms extended very wide in the…
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Knowledge
‘The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and solidity of our possessions.‘― Thomas Henry Huxley
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Poetic Linnaeus
‘Poets are born, not made. I was not born a poet, but a botanist instead, so I offer the fruit of the little harvest which God has vouchsafed me.‘― Carolus Linnaeus
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