"I don't like anything that's got to be. I want to know why."

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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

“Creationists don't want equal time, … they want all the time there is.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

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"The success of mathematical physics led the social scientist to be jealous of its power without quite understanding the intellectual attitudes that had contributed to this power. The use of mathematic…"

— Norbert Wiener

Mathematics1894–1964

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"This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause …"

— Maimonides

Religion1135–1204

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"Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society."

— Sonia Sotomayor

Politics1954

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"A little distance had opened between us, almost unnoticed, rarely acknowledged. We made love infrequently. The couch was for sleep at the end of exhausting days. I confided in her less often. Perhaps …"

— Nick Drake (poet)

Literature1948–1974

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