It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.\n\n>-- Thomas Alva Edison The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.\n\n>-- John Wheeler We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.\n\n>-- T. S. Eliot Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.\n\n>-- Bertrand Russell The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.\n\n>-- Niels Bohr In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.\n\n>-- Paul Lutus 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.\n\n>-- Galileo Galilei You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\n\n>-- Mahatma Gandhi In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven.\n\n>-- Kurt Godel The best way to predict the future is to invent it.\n\n>-- Alan Kay With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.\n\n>-- Paul Lutus We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.\n\n>-- Native American Proverb It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.\n\n>-- Voltaire Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans.\n\n>-- John Lennon Be careful while reading health books, you might die of a misprint.\n\n>-- Mark Twain Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.\n\n>-- Mark Twain He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.\n\n>-- Chinese Proverb If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.\n\n>-- Florynce R. Kennedy It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists.\n\n>-- Knut Schmidt-Nielsen If you really want to be lonely, get married.\n\n>-- Gloria Steinem In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.\n\n>-- J. Robert Oppenheimer A person who won't think has no advantage over one who can't think.\n\n>-- Paul Lutus The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.\n\n>-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.\n\n>-- Isadora Duncan Truth never damages a cause that is just.\n\n>-- Mahatma Gandhi Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.\n\n>-- Groucho Marx As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.\n\n>-- Charles Dickens Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.\n\n>-- E.B. White When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.\n\n>-- Paul Lutus I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\n\n>-- D. H. Lawrence A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.\n\n>-- Paul Erdos