My Favorite Quotes and Facts
  by ~ Author quoted where known
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
	nor the most intelligent, 
		but the one most responsive to change."
	---- Charles Darwin


Inner strength is like a river into which all streams flow
	---- Ecclisiastes 2:1


Never before in History has so many, 
	known so little,	
		 about so much.
	---- James Burke -- Discovery Channel -- Connections


"What you do speaks so loudly
        that I cannot hear what you say."
	---- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Seek not to know all the answers,
	 But to understand the questions
	---- Albert Einstein


"I want to know how God created this world.
	I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, 
		in the spectrum of this or that element.
			 I want to know His thoughts; 
				the rest are details." 
	---- Albert Einstein 


"The failure to fully contemplate an idea is often mistaken for optimism."
	---- Albert Einstein


"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
	---- Aurther C. Clarke


"If you cannot accept the possibility that what you believe is false, 
	then neither can you ever know truth."
	---- Author Unknown


the mind, once stretched by an empowering idea, 
	can never return to its original dimensions
	---- Author Unknown 
	( Possibly -- James Burke -- Discovery Channel -- Connections )


General Relativity
	.....Space tells Matter how to move
		...Matter tells Space how to curve.
	---- Albert Einstein


"Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, 
	more for support than illumination." 
	---- Mark Twain


"There is nothing so easy that it cannot be done wrong." 
	---- Author Unknown


"Truth -- and we could say freedom -- is seldom found in extremes."
	---- Unknown Early American


"you find that everything you hold sacred is no longer valid,
	now is the time to take a different path" 
	---- Frank Herbert 


"Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason."
	---- James Randi


"Capitalism is when wealth is distributed unevenly, 
	socialism is when poverty is distributed evenly"
	----Winston Churchill 



On matters of style, 
	swim with the current,
		on matters of principal, 
		  	  stand like a rock. 
	----Thomas Jefferson



"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, 
for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his 
condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed 
by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, 
without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which 
we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement 
or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, 
be a subject of property."
        ---- Thomas Jefferson
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