"The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake."

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H. L. Mencken

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“You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.”
“We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.”
“We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.”
“One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intense contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.”

Source : "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas". Book by Seymour Papert, 1980.
“I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.”
“Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.”
“I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of language. Reading the classics, be they medieval or contemporary, gives me a stylistic energy that I'm very interested in.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”

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