- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, II.ii
"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Sherlock Holmes
"We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are."
- Harry S Truman (1884-1972)
"317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way."
- Godfrey Hardy (1877-1947)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Discours de la Methode
"If two things don’t fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that’s credulity."
- Umberto Eco (1929-), Foucalt's Pendulum
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
- Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958)
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
"Plurality is not to be posited without necessity."
- William of Ockham (?-1349)
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956), Chessmaster
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics."
- Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
"A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."
- James D. Watson (1928-)
"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Edison (1874-1931)
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
- Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
"The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don’t."
- Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
"Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resemble what actually happens."
- Ian Stewart (1945-)
"Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins."
- Richard Dawkins (1941-)
"A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false."
- P. D. Ouspensky (1878-1947)
"Science is the record of dead religions."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
- Ashley Montague (1905-1999)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans."
- William M. Holden
"Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), to a visiting diplomat
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."
- Scott Elledge, on his retirement as a Professor at Cornell
"The average person thinks he isn’t."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."
- Charles William Stubbs
"Give me a museum and I’ll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise."
- Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935), Chessmaster
ahoo Morons are people who think that they are always right even though stupidity is their middle name.
Idiot is one who does the same thing over and over again wanting and waiting to see different result.
Greedy politicians are those mainly found without brain power but only using brute force. With an insatiable desire for wealth and earthly possessions, thinking that the world revolve around them. And they can take it with them, the vast horde of wealth upon their demise.