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- In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), 1987 CSICOP Keynote Address
- Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
- Peter De Vries
- In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.
- James Agee (1909 - 1955), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
- E. W. Dijkstra
- A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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