"If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities."

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Source : Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.21

Charles Babbage

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“I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.”
“The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.”
“Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.”

Source : Press Release by the Arts Council of Great Britain, November 02, 1983.
“So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.”
“Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge....you are god”
“I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths [...] I can see much to admire in all religions [...] But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace's letter to a relative, 1861.
“History is, indeed, an argument without end.”

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