"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."

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"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."

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"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."

Reality

"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."

Freedom

"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."

Earth

"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."

Technology

"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."

History

"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."

Art

"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."

Theory

"We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."

Fate

"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."

Knowledge

"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."

Science

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"I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

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"We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst."

Daley Thompson, English Athlete

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"Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth."

Curt Siodmak, German Novelist

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"The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum."

Claude Nicollier, American Astronaut

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

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"Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man."

Henry Beston, American Writer

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