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"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs,
and different degrees of certainty about different
things...but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and
there are many things I don't know anything about!"
-Richard P. Feynman
"A flute with no holes is not a flute; a donut with no holes is a danish."
-Chevy Chase, Caddyshack
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
-Albert Einstein
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction
that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself
for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full
of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil
bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
"Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial,
has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of
the active, efficient and practical man."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out.
But pompous fools - guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people
as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus - that, I cannot stand! An
ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is alright. But a dishonest fool is terrible!"
-Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!