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• I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. -- Jay Gould
• Make a fortune with this fortune, no one else can do that... not even the author of it.
• The enemy of science is irrationalism, not religion. -- Stephen Jay Gould
• Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.
  -- David Ogilvy...
• A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. -- Joey Adam
• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
  -- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Mismeasure of Ma...
• 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....
• Any one can be unhappy, but it takes extra effort and learning to make oneself unhappy.
  -- Watzliawick, 'The Situation is Hopeless, but not Serious' 1966....
• In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.
  I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms....