"I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."

Holmes, Sherlock on Idleness
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on Bores and Boredom
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on Science and Scientists
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"When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on Possibilities
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on Mistakes
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"The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession."

Holmes, Sherlock on Theory
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

Feynman, Richard P. on Nature
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."

Franklin, Benjamin on Ignorance
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Darrow, Clarence on Ignorance
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter."

Rimbaud, Arthur on Sorrow
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"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

Mandino, Og on Adversity
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"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

Syrus, Publilius on Kindness
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"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Einstein, Albert on Research
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on Faith
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Einstein, Albert on Reality
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

Carroll, Lewis on Goals
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"Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence."

Carroll, Lewis on Juries
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"I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

Carroll, Lewis on Knowledge
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

Carroll, Lewis on Self discovery
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"I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache."

Carroll, Lewis on Courage
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"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world."

Archimedes on Power
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"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."

Bohr, Niels on Experts
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"Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."

Twain, Mark on Certainty
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"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Asimov, Isaac on Morality
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"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

Asimov, Isaac on Computers
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"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."

Deutsch, Helene on Research
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"What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair."

Milton, John on Respectability
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"To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am."

Buruch, Andre B. on Age and Aging
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"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington on Victory
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"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Promises
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"There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Fear
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"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Decisions
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"Public instruction should be the first object of government."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Government
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"A true man hates no one."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Men
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"The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Tyranny
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"Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded."

Chesterfield, Lord on Prejudice
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"For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while."

Burbank, Luther on Prejudice
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"What is research, but a blind date with knowledge."

Henry, William on Research
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"Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought."

Unknown, Source on Research
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