"The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance."

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Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Leon M. Lederman

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“A clean and well-cared for appearance should be maintained. Hair styles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles. Mens' hair should be trimmed above the collar, leaving the ears uncovered. If worn, mustaches should be neatly trimmed. Earrings for men are unacceptable, and beards are not acceptable, except for certified medical reasons.”
“People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.”
“Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses”
“November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.”
“Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.”

Source : "Get the Love You Want — #emergingnow" by Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2015.
“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.”

Source : "What We Observed in Teaching General Semantics". Et cetera, 61, pp. 482-486, 2004.
“The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.”
“I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.”

Source : Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”, p.189, Abrams

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