"It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain."

-- Hans Kung

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“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.”

Source : "Encouragement of Science". J. Robert Oppenheimer's address at Science Talent Institute (March 6, 1950), as quoted in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 7, No. 1 (pp. 6-8), January 1951.
“The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.”
“No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.”
“The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024. If it is shown to be highly profitable, perhaps we will see 20,000 people traveling to orbit by 2035, and then thousands to the moon by 2050. If we make a courageous decision, like the program we kicked off for Apollo, we will see our grandchildren in outposts on other planets.”
“This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.”

Source : John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.572
“The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.”
“It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.”
“I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.”

Source : "Slackers". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 1, 2002.

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