"Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled."

-- Jean Piaget

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“The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.”
“Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.”

Source : Mike Brown (2010). “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”, p.72, Spiegel & Grau
“The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.”
“The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 262, 1991.
“I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.”
“We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!”

Source : John F. MacArthur (2006). “Truth for Today: A Daily Touch of God's Grace”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“You become megastars when superstars start reprising your roles.”
“Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me. "The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.”

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