Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal
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Free speech is just free speech. It takes actual humans making the effort to talk to each other to transform speech into something more vital and more valuable.
-- Dahlia Lithwick
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Concepts without intuition are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
-- Immanuel Kant
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
-- Anonymous
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
-- William Bragg
Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.
-- W. Edwards Deming
The paradox is that as we advance into the future the need for change gets greater and greater (to cope with changes in population, pollution, etc. and to make full use of our new technologies) but the possibility of change gets less and less because everything is already committed.
-- Edward deBono
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The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
-- Goethe
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Nature wants five of your seven children dead. It wants you dead by fifty. Everything better than that is brought to you by science and technology.
-- David Frum (@davidfrum)
Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
-- William Strunk Jr.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
-- Joseph Joubert
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One of the greatest problems in medicine is the collusion between academics seeking money and industry in search of a plausible narrative for selling products. ...The role of academe is to question lucrative dogma, not to join the feeding frenzy.
-- Richard Lehman
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
-- George Herbert
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We do not admire what we cannot understand.
-- Marianne Moore
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-- Walter Scott
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Courage is grace under pressure.
-- Ernest Hemingway
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