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(1874—1936), As I Was Saying

Progress is the mother of problems.

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(1876—1933)

U.S. wit

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the 'old one'. I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing dice.

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In relation to their systems most systematisers are like a man who builds an enormous castle and lives in a shack close by; they do not live in their own enormous systematic buildings.

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(1890—1976)

British mystery writer

Archaelogists make the best husbands. The older you get, the more they're interested.

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(1533—1592), Works, Book II, "Apology for Raimond Semond"

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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(Life magazine, August 5, 1946)

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

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(1907—1988), US science-fiction novelist

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

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In so far as the statements of geometry speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality.