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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. ~Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949


What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. ~Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir


Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship," Essays, 1841


To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner


Ideas have become far more important to us than action - ideas so cleverly expressed in books by the intellectuals in every field. The more cunning, the more subtle, those ideas are the more we worship them and the books that contain them. We are those books, we are those ideas, so heavily conditioned are we by them. We are forever discussing ideas and ideals and dialectically offering opinions. Every religion has its dogma, its formula, its own scaffold to reach the gods, and when inquiring into the beginning of thought we are questioning the importance of this whole edifice of ideas. We have separated ideas from action because ideas are always of the past and action is always the present - that is, living is always the present. We are afraid of living and therefore the past, as ideas, has become so important to us. ~J. Krishnamurti Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick. Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso. ~Spanish Proverb


Truth breeds hatred. ~Bias of Priene, Maxims


I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~Blaise Pascal


Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source. ~"The Manuscript"


Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. ~Lyman Abbott


If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. ~Mike Ditka


I love America. It's Americans I can't stand. ~Attributed to both Charles Shultz and Bill Maher


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane


Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax. ~Hartman Jule


Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. ~W.H. Davies


A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden. ~Terri Guillemets


Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ~Moritz Guedemann


Some folks wear their halos much too tight. ~Author Unknown


If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. ~Daniel Marsh, 1950