"One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron."

-- Francis Collins

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“America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.”
“Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.”
“Forever is composed of NowsÂ— 'Tis not a different timeÂ— Except for InfinitenessÂ— And Latitude of Home”
“Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.”

Source : "When Things Start to Think". Book by Neil Gershenfeld, www.cnn.com. 1998.
“There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press
“Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.”

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