This page is for important quotes that are included as a means of maintaining the moral and motivation of the guest writers and like-minded thinkers when seemly the whole world is opposed to anyone countering the current scientific dogma.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common-sense." Buddha
"...man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on." Winston Churchill
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley
"Dumb questions can destroy good theories." Arthur Ryan
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein
"Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness." S. Warren Carey
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand Russell
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein
"Theoretical speed limits are meant to be broken. Just ask Chuck Yeager." Arthur Ryan
"Madness consists in not recognising the facts; in making wishes the father of thoughts." Aldous Huxley
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein
"An education is helpful for finding answers; but it is not a requirement." Brian David
"Never believe a scientist until an engineer has turned his theory into a product you can buy off the shelf." Bruce Harvey
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein
"A science is not improved as far as theories remain unchallenged." Cyril Gamage
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." Albert Einstein
"We owe Einstein our gratitude for the advances of relativity. Now is time for this generation of physicists to make advances." Brian Sowards
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." Albert Einstein
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illustion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein
"Beaten paths are for beaten men." Eric Johnson
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein
"In my search for the truth, I have discovered that I need to be able to hold multiple ideas in my head at the same time. The goal should never be to quickly reach a solution, as we've been taught; but, rather to continually and relentlessly challenge and consider all possibilities." Steve Battis
"Good theories are usually not “wrong”, even when superseded... they are incomplete." Rob Knop
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Albert Einstein
"Science periodically gets tangled up in complexity. The scientist who make the biggest contributions are the ones who simplify things." Brian Sowards
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when man does not thoughtlessly submit to prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." Albert Einstein
"It is imperative in science to doubt." Richard Feyman
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is a good as dead: his eyes are closed." Albert Einstein
"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done." Arnold Palmer
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." Albert Einstein
"As conscious being, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them." Harry G. Frankfurt
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice." Albert Einstein
"Justifying a fault doubles it." French proverb
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." Albert Einstein
"We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket." Werner Von Braun
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." Albert Einstein
"Common-sense is not so common." Voltaire
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." Albert Einstein
"It should be the mission of higher education to teach how to think and not what to think" Arthur Ryan
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." Albert Einstein
"If ensuring continued funding influences your findings, you have committed a crime against humanity" Arthur Ryan
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
"Figures don't lie; but, liars can figure." Unknown
The truth in current scientific dogma: "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein
"There is something wrong in science today: Albert Einstein doubted his own theories on his death bed and scientists who doubt them now, go to theirs." Arthur Ryan
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Albert Einstein
"A paradox in a theory should be look at like smoke. It usually indicates that something is wrong." Arthur Ryan
"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein
"Imagine our world if we had considered Alexander Graham Bell's telephone to be the utmost possibility in long-distant communication." Arthur Ryan
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." Albert Einstein
"Science sets itself apart from other paths to truth by recognizing that even its greatest practitioners sometime err." Steven Weinberg
"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid." Albert Einstein
"What we do not change is who we choose to be." David Cornberg
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." Albert Einstein
"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone." Albert Einstein
"The smartest people I know have more common-sense than education." Brian David
"Most people say that it is intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong - it is character." Albert Einstein
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." Albert Einstein
"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds." Albert Einstein
"It is quite possible that our Galileo or Einstein of today has already been professionally destroyed." Arthur Ryan
"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms." Albert Einstein
"The only source of knowledge is experience." Albert Einstein
"The ability to think Out-of-the-Box is more important than the ability to build a box." Arthur Ryan
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." Albert Einstein
"I once wondered if I viewed dogmatic thought with distain and pity and realized I viewed it with amazement and concern." Arthur Ryan
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." Albert Einstein
"If you are in a scientific debate and your opponent resorts to disparaging remarks, leave the room because you won." Arthur Ryan
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." Albert Einstein
"Smart people admit what they don't know." Brian David
"We haven't the money, so we've got to think." Ernest Rutherford, British Physicist
"Improvements come from looking at things with a critical eye." Zig Ziglar
"The only thing I know for sure is that I may be wrong. Conversely, I might be right." Arthur Ryan
"Next time it is raining when the forecast called for sunshine, blame probability and computer models." Arthur Ryan
"Garbage in, garbage out also applies to computer models." Arthur Ryan
"When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all." Paul Simon - Kodachrome
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