It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei
What Americans still haven’t learned
Published by 1 year, 8 months ago in Philosophers and Scientists. 0 CommentsAny society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
- Benjamin Franklin
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
- Carl Sagan
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
- Albert Einstein
I am the one to whom you wrote in care of the Belgian Academy… Read no newspapers, try to find a few friends who think as you do, read the wonderful writers of earlier times, Kant, Goethe, Lessing, and the classics of other lands, and enjoy the natural beauties of Munich’s surroundings. Make believe all the time that you are living, so to speak, on Mars among alien creatures and blot out any deeper interest in the actions of those creatures. Make friends with a few animals. Then you will become a cheerful man once more and nothing will be able to trouble you.
Bear in mind that those who are finer and nobler are always alone — and necessarily so — and that because of this they can enjoy the purity of their own atmosphere.
I shake your hand in heartfelt comradeship, E.
- Albert Einstein, letter to an unemployed musician
I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
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