"There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."

-- Philo Farnsworth

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“I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.”
“And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.”
“A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...”

Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.
“I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.”
“It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.”
“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2013). “Blue Light”, p.346, Open Road Media
“Philosophy is nothing but discretion.”

Source : John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.102
“For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.”

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