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Because consciousness is actually "self-consciousness," (i.e. a self and a consciousness) consciousness is always already divided, never simply present to itself.
-Warren Hedges

People's brains stop working when they think they're going to lose someone they love.
-House

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what is going on.
-Jacques Cousteau

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us - there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest mysteries.
-Carl Sagan

If our objective is deep knowledge rather than shallow reassurance, the gains from this new perspective far outweigh the losses.
-Carl Sagan

The cosmos is also within us: we are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
-Carl Sagan

The greatest asset any living creature can possess is a brain capable of imagination.
-Eric Frank Russell, "Legwork"

I know that quickness to anger diminishes with understanding, and I tend to associate rage with fear, ignorance, and desperation.
-AronRa

Nobody cares what you hate, and neither should you, because it is only the things that you love that will endear you in anyone's memory.
-AronRa

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
-Thomas Szasz

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.
-P.J. O’Rourke

Мне часто приходилось ловить себя на таких же ошибках, когда я совершенно неверно толковала ту или иную черту характера, воображала, что люди гораздо более веселы или серьёзны, остроумны или глупы, чем они оказывались на самом деле, и не могу даже объяснить, почему или каким образом возникало подобное заблуждение. Порой полагаешься на то, что они говорят о себе сами, гораздо чаще - на то, что говорят о них другие люди, и не даёшь себе времени подумать и судить самой.

-Jane Austen, "Чувство и чувствительность"

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it.
-Aristotle

It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter as if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
-Richard Feynman, "Six Easy Pieces"

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right. They are the aperture for figuring out what is right.
-Carl Sagan

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such a friend.
-W.B. Yeats

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
-Mark Twain (apocryphal) http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
-Thomas A. Edison (hell, i don't care if it's apocryphal, it's DOPE!) :P

If you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands!
-Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History Of Time"

You're about as likely to see real arrogance as you are to see nudity at a scientific conference.
-Sam Harris

life can