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“The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.”

Book:The Raw and the Cooked

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“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Si el universo es tan infinito y aun así yo estoy aquí para descubrirlo, tiene que ser porque mi existencia es importante.”

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Book:El príncipe del sol

Source: El príncipe del sol

“Even if you face a closed door, continue to give life your best shot until you find a better open door.”

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Book:Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

“I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.”

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Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“He shredded my wings with his words.”

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Book:Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

Source: Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us.”

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Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Find networks that enable you to access open doors. Networking is a powerful tool that can lead to opportunities you may not discover on your own.”

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Book:Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

“As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.”

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Book:12-12-12

Source: 12-12-12

“Walk in the rain, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sandcastles, go on field trips, find out how things work, tell stories, say the magic words, trust the universe.”

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Author:Bruce Williamson

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