"Science may be described as the art of systematic over- simplification."
- Karl Popper
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"Science may be described as the art of systematic over- simplification."
- Karl Popper
"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders."
Desiderius Erasmus
"It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing."
- John Henry Newman
"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
- Baruch Spinoza
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
- Frédéric Bastiat
"What Marxism was to the society of Economic Man, Calvinism was to that of Intellectual Man: the final, messianic exaggeration of its creed. In both, the belief in the attainment of freedom and equality could only be maintained by sacrificing actual freedom. The doctrine of determination through predestination in Calvinism is parallel to that of determination through the class situation in Marxism. Both abolished actual freedom in existing society to maintain the belief in the reality and imminence of freedom in the coming society. And both collapsed as orders when it was proved that the only society which they could realize was an unfree society."
- Peter Drucker
"You can't win friends with salad."
Homer and Bart Simpson
"Don't hate people because of race. Get to know them. Usually there is a lot of other things you can hate them for."
Denis Miller
"How can you enjoy good music without good marijuana?"
Cheech Marin
"Who shot who in the what now?"
Old bearded man on the Simpsons (Name escapes me).
"I bent my wookie."
Ralph Wiggum
Damn you guys are spamming my thread...
well guess i have to take it back then;
"New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation."
- Roland Barthes
"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
-Shirley Bassey
"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars."
-Beck
"One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not."
-Orlando A. Battista
"An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents."
-Alec Guinness
"Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously."
-Arland Ussher
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
-Woody Allen
"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."
-Al Capone
"The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures."
-Humphrey Davy