I have 4 I want to share. =)
The Devil's Advocate:
Kevin Lomax: What about love?
John Milton: Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
Halloween:
Loomis: I met him, fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. - Mark Twain (Love Mark Twain)
EDITED: To add this one for Death
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain
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Thank you =) Added you to mine too! Love great quotes, great idea you had there!
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If you are satisfied and do what you feel you must do, no matter what that is... then you have reached perfection.
— Metamoq, Zeno Clash
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Badgers? Badgers? We dont need no stinking badgers!
Raul Hernandez, Raul's Wild Kingdom
EDIT: I see this doesnt fit your topic. lol, sorry
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Slight overload. :)
"Lincoln had a brighter future when he picked up his tickets at the box office."
-- Frasier Crane
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"How can we possibly use sex to get what we want? Sex *is* what we want!"
-- Frasier Crane
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"Her lips said 'no' but her eyes said 'read my lips'."
-- Niles Crane
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"Our death ray doesn't seem to be working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet."
-- Jamie Hyneman
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"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist."
-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov
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"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
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"Why do you insist that the human genetic code is 'sacred' or 'taboo'? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality, you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself."
-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
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"Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."
-- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
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"And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary government, from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls Planet. In former times the energy monopoly was called 'The Power Company'; we intend to give this name an entirely new meaning."
-- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
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"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever."
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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"If we die we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life."
-- Virgil 'Gus' Grissom [died in pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee]
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"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
-- Woody Allen
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"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."
-- Groucho Marx
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"I made a killing on Wall Steet a few years ago... I shot my broker."
-- Groucho Marx
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"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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"When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals."
-- John Maynard Keynes
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"Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds."
-- John Maynard Keynes
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
-- Albert Einstein
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"To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself."
-- Albert Einstein
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"The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion."
-- Albert Einstein
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"Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein
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"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein
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"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom."
-- Albert Einstein
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
-- Albert Einstein
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"There are 10 to the 11th power stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."
-- Richard Feynman
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
-- Stephen Hawking
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
-- Stephen Hawking
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"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."
-- Enrico Fermi
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"Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge."
-- Enrico Fermi
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"If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision."
-- Leó Szilárd
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[On the Manhattan Project] "We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow."
-- Leó Szilárd
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"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
-- Wernher von Braun
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"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination."
-- Mark Twain
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"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
-- Mark Twain
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-- Douglas Adams
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
-- Isaac Asimov
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"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
-- Isaac Asimov
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny...'."
-- Isaac Asimov
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-- Isaac Asimov
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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
-- Isaac Asimov
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"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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"The dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program."
-- Larry Niven
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"Ethics change with technology."
-- Larry Niven's 9th law
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"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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"A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cases me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow."
-- Abraham Lincoln
I have way more but I fear this has become way too long already. :)
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Science
This is a pair of quotes which is probably the greatest scientific and
philosophical debate between the most intelligent people in 20th century - Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr.
The debate is centered around the natural of our universe ( quantum mechanics )
"God doesn't play dice with the world" - Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr replied, "Stop telling God what to do."
And the debate still goes on today, however, Albert Einstein was wrong in certain degree.
the universe can't be certain and local at the same time (by Bell's inequality experiments )
I also love many quotes from mathematics, such as,
"God made the integers, all else is the work of man." - Kronecker ( which is also on my steam profile XD)
however, since you are asking only science,
so I only discuss science here ><
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Works for arrival and/or anything else that needs an introduction:
"What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am?" - the Goddamn Batman
"SHOWTIME" - Gomez Addams
On death and celebrating life:
"Well. I think some of it is probably contrasts. Light and shadow. If you never had the bad times, how would you know you had the good times?
But some of it is just: If you're going to be human, then there are a whole load of things that come with it. Eyes, a heart, days and life.
It's the moments that illuminate it, though. The times you don't see when you're having them ... They make the rest of it matter." - Death of the Endless
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"A great ideal always provides the strength to dominate our body, to suffer fatigue, hunger, cold. What matters the white nights, the oppressive work, the anxieties and poverty! What is essential is to have in the bottom of our heart a great force that reanimates and pushes forward, which strengthens the nerves, which is throbbing with strong beats tired blood, which infuses into the eyes the blazing fire and conqueror. Then nothing gives pain, the same pain becomes joy because it is a means more to elevate our gift, to purify our sacrifice"
Leon Degrelle
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When life gives you lemons you gotta shove 'em down somebody's throat 'til they see yellow! - Frank Reynolds
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Nobody will take me seriously but anything from the pychos and krieg in borderlands. Those guys even recite Macbeth while trying to kill you.
Anyway, I've always been hooked by Blood Meridian specially by the Judge and his dark and dangerous way of see things. And of course, as he says:
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities
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Celebrating Life
"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special." - Jim Valvano
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What quotes from books, lyrics, music and/or movies do u love?
these are the topics that i am looking for:
Please mention the artist, writer, title or the origin of the quote and the topic that would fit in.
Good contributions will be whitelisted
-> TRAIN <-
>WHITELIST TRAIN<-
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