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Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present. This nothingness has the part equal to the whole, and the whole to the part, the divisible to the indivisible; and the product of the sum is the same whether we divide or multiply, and in addition as in subtraction; as is proved by arithmeticians by their tenth figure which represents zero; and its power has not extension among the things of Nature.
Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.
Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988

Richard Feynman
1918 - 1988
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale Soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War 1755 - 1776

The purported last words of the American spy before being executed.

Nathan Hale
1755 - 1776
The purported last words of the American spy before being executed.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J. M. Barrie Scottish writer and playwright 1860 - 1937

J. M. Barrie
1860 - 1937
God is not dead but alive and working on a much less ambitious project.
Unknown

Graffito : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Unknown
Graffito : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
God is a lie, we made him up for money!
Tom Kauffman

Spoken my a crazed priest Television show 'Rick and Morty' S3 E6 (2017)

Tom Kauffman
Spoken my a crazed priest Television show 'Rick and Morty' S3 E6 (2017)
I am America. I am the part you won't recognise. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
Muhammad Ali American boxer 1942 - 2016

Muhammad Ali
1942 - 2016
I'm so bored with it all.
Winston Churchill British statesman, soldier and writer 1874 - 1965

Spoken before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.

Winston Churchill
1874 - 1965
Spoken before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell British philosopher and logician 1872 - 1970

'An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish' (1943), in Unpopular Essays (1950)

Bertrand Russell
1872 - 1970
'An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish' (1943), in Unpopular Essays (1950)
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as ‘candle making industry threatened’.
Newt Gingrich American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives born 1943

Newt Gingrich
born 1943
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Steven Weinberg American theoretical physicist 1933 - 2021

Steven Weinberg
1933 - 2021
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings. - Diogenes
Banksy English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Banksy
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author 1934 - 1996

Carl Sagan
1934 - 1996
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.
George Orwell British writer and journalist 1903 - 1950

Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg.

George Orwell
1903 - 1950
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg.
What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.
Vincent van Gogh Dutch painter 1853 - 1890

Vincent van Gogh
1853 - 1890
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author born 1941

Richard Dawkins
born 1941
Entropy requires no maintenance.
Robert Anton Wilson American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic 1932 - 2007

Schrödinger's Cat 1: The Universe Next Door

Robert Anton Wilson
1932 - 2007
Schrödinger's Cat 1: The Universe Next Door
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Ted Hughes English poet and children's writer 1930 - 1998

from poem titled 'Hawk Roosting' Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ted Hughes
1930 - 1998
from poem titled 'Hawk Roosting' Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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