Did you know that if you put your ear up to a stranger’s leg you can hear them say: “What the fuck are you doing?”

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Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism – it’s turning God into a nature god.

Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ, research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Stewart Brand

…programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Ada Lovelace

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Catherine the Great

Fairness is what justice really is.

Potter Stewart, Supreme Court Justice

Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege. It's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying tax. Like churches don't.

Ricky Gervais

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Robert A. Wilson

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe.

H.G. Wells

You can't do much carpentry with your bare hands, and you can't do much thinking with your bare brain.

Bo Dahlbom

One test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Tex Johnston

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

No problem is insoluble, given enough plastic bags.

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I could never understand ethnic or national pride. Because to me pride should be reserved for something you acchieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill, it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say ‘I'm proud to be 5'11". I'm proud to have a predisposition of colon cancer.’ So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or American or anything?

George Carlin

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

Michael Shermer

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Sophia Loren

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Francis Bacon

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Nelson Mandela

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine