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There is a theory that state: "If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizzarly inexplicable."There is another theory that states: "This has already happened..."
Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Chang-tzu

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

God does not play dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
R. Buckminster Fuller

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
Galileo Galilei

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine. J.B.S. Haldane

My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
Stephen Hawking

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.
Rev. John H. Holmes

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Henry Huxley

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.
Todd Johnson

The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft

You don't fuck around with the infinite.
Mean Streets

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir (1838-1914)

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg

Maybe we're just lucky to live in a universe composed by a divine Bach. Perhaps next door, the inhabitants of a John Cage universe muddle along in chaos...
Michael Weiss, in sci.physics

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.
Emil Wiechert

Reality is good for you...in small doses.

The universe is laughing behind your back.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William E. Borah

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley

Diplomacy - the art of saying "Nice doggie" 'til you can find a stick.
Wynn Catlin

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill

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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the
disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would
be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but
Congress can.
Cullen Hightower

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve
to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by
Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken

In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.
J.G.C. Minchin

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country
choose a second rate president.
Richard M. Nixon

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men
in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.
Robert Novak

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making
other bastards die for their country.
George Smith Patton

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get
the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize
that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government
working for you.
Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
Senator Soaper

Our elections are free--it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Bill Stern

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a
leader.
Harry Truman

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Judge Gideon J. Tucker

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more
of them who were paralyzed in the head.
George Wallace

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are
right more than half of the time.
E. B. White

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,

I know it is wrong.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
H. L. Mencken

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta

Procrastination
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis

Procrastination is the thief of time.
John Dos Pasos

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create
him.
Arthur C. Clarke

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

I want to know all Gods thoughts...all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

I could prove God statistically.
George Gallup

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
Adolf Hitler

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Alfred Jarry

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.
"Aqualung" - Jethro Tull

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world
ugly and bad.
Nietzsche

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If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist
Michael Patton

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis, "Epigrams of Programming"

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their
human interests.
George Santayana

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

I don't believe in god, but I like him just the same!
Carl William Brown

Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe-spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
Andrew Lias

The churches should learn humility as well as teach it.
Carl William Brown