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My Favourite quotations “ All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. Perhaps that is why I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. ” — Stephen Hawking “ Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty! ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “ My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? ” — Wernher von Braun “ Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself. You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it. ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “ When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. ” — Albert Hofmann “ A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. ” — Alan Turing “ Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ” — Herman Cain “ A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. ” — Horace Mann “ Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it. ” — Albert Einstein “ I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos? ” — Stephen Hawking “ The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. ” — Charles de Montesquieu “ A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. ” — Albert Einstein “ Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. ” — John von Neumann “ With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. ” — John von Neumann “ Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ” — Winston Churchill “ Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ” — William Cowper “ The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “ By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ” — Mikhail Bakunin “ I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ” — Albert Einstein “ A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live. ” — Unknown “ Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “ If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ” — Albert Einstein “ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ” — Carl Sagan

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