Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 30, 2008
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
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Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

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