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===Science===
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
:Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
:Alfred North Whitehead

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
:Johann von Neumann

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
:Thomas Pickering

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
:Harper's Index, October 1989

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls
:Matt Cartmill (Professor in Biological Anthropology)

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
:Evan Esar (Esar's Comic Dictionary)

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
:William S. Burroughs

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
:Paul Dirac

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
:Thomas Pickering

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
:Richard Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
:Richard Feynman

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
:Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

===Life===

金を残す人生は下、事業を残す人生は中、人を残す人生こそが上なり
:後藤新平（満鉄、帝都復興院総裁）

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
:John Updike, Assorted Prose (1965)

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
:George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

Silence is the virtue of fools.
:Sir Francis Bacon

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
:Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
:Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
:Rita Mae Brown

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
:W. H. Auden

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
:Arthur C. Clarke

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
:Bill Gates, Time Magazine, January 13, 1996

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
:James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
:Peter Ustinov

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
:Jack London

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
:Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004

This book fills a much-needed gap.
:Moses Hadas

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
:Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire, 1912

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
:Neil Gaiman, Sandman

===Society===

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
:Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
:Daniel J. Boorstin

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
:George Orwell

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
:Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
:Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

===Sports===

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
:Steven Wright

My toughest fight was with my first wife.
:Muhammad Ali

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
:Jimmy Demaret

===Comedy===

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
:Sam Levenson

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'
:Ronnie Shakes

===Presidents===

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
:Sir Winston Churchill

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

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 If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
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