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• In any academic area or professional field, it is just as important to recognize the limits of our knowledge and understanding as it is to acquire new facts and information.
• MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small.
  If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been....
• As soon as you are willing to discard observational data because it conflicts with religion, you are giving up any hope of ever really understanding the universe.
  As soon as you pick religion as the touchstone of reality, then we have to start discussing how one can demonstrate the correctness of one religion over another when different *religions* disagree....
• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
  -- John Locke, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding...
• And it does matter. An honest man or woman is an honest man or woman more because he or she is honest in the small
  everyday things that "don't matter" individually, but which make up a well-lived life, than because of some single great temptation that was passed....
• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere
  like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show....
• If *I* can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.
  "Somebody has to save our skins." - Leia Organa -- ...understanding Product Support......
• To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else.
  And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe....
• I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.
  -- Warren G. Harding...