My Favourite quotations
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All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. Perhaps that is why I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
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| — Stephen Hawking
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Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!
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| — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
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| — Wernher von Braun
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Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself. You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it.
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| — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
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| — Albert Hofmann
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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| — Herman Cain
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.
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| — Horace Mann
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
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| — Albert Einstein
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I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?
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| — Stephen Hawking
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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| — Charles de Montesquieu
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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| — John von Neumann
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With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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| — William Cowper
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.
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| — Mikhail Bakunin
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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| — Albert Einstein
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A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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| — Carl Sagan
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Lourie Pieterse
