It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.Bill Gates
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.Noam Chomsky
I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'Noam Chomsky
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.Noam Chomsky
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.Richard Feynman
It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?Richard Feynman
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.Leonardo da Vinci
