Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience
Bovenstaand citaat wordt toegeschreven aan Mark Twain met flink wat gerede twijfel. Toch zou hij het zo maar gezegd kunnen hebben. Maar het meest waarschijnlijk is dan, dat Twain zijn versie gaf van Spreuken 26-4:
Lees verderStephen Hawking died on #PiDay, there is beauty in numbers.
“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works.”
— To Diane Sawyer/ABC News, June 2010
Citaat van Richard Feynman :
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Citaat van William Faulkner:
History is not was, it is (uit: onbekend)
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born. (uit: Requiem for a nun)
It has served us well, this myth of Christ.
Toegeschreven aan paus Leo X (11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521, paus vanaf 1513).
Uit: wikiquote.
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.