Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.Richard Feynman
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.Noam Chomsky
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.Richard Dawkins
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.Lao Tzu
It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.Richard Feynman
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.Isaac Newton
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.Albert Camus
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.Albert Einstein
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.Albert Einstein
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.Albert Camus
