"It is easier to make people appear equally stupid than to make them equally clever, so teaching methods are adopted which make it practically impossible for anyone to learn anything."

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“It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.”

“That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.”

“The most exciting thing possible is actually true.”

“People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.”

“The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.”

“In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.”

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— Francis Sears

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— Gustave Courbet

Art1819–1877

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Science1928–1990

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"I think it is a sad reflection on our civilisation that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus, we do not know what goes on inside our souffles."

— Nicholas Kurti

Science1908–1998

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