"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."

-- Arthur Koestler

#Stars Quotes #Faces Quotes #Empty Quotes

“Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.”
“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

Source : James D. Watson (2009). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.326, Vintage
“The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.”
“Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,”
“That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.”
“Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we learn and grow from the past, never resting upon previous achievements or allowing past failure to paralyze us in our current endeavor. All that was has created us to be the best we currently are for our greatest hour is about to arise!”

Source : FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from May 10, 2012
“When I see everyone doing the same thing, I want to do the opposite.”

Source : "Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Matt Schild, music.avclub.com. January 18, 2011.
“GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.”

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