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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Stephen Hawking
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #12
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    John Locke

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #14
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #15
    Dan    Brown
    “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

  • #16
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #17
    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #19
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #20
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #21
    Roy T. Bennett
    “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #22
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #23
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #24
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #25
    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #27
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    Alan Alda

  • #28
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #29
    Stephen Hawking
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #30
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    Arthur C. Clarke



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