It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.Richard Feynman
Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.Howard Jacobson
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.Richard Dawkins
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.Friedrich Nietzsche
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.Tom Stoppard