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Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. – Hans Christian Anderson
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. – Marie Curie
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. – Roosevelt, Eleanor
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness. – Paul Feyerabend
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas. – Mehmet Murat ildan
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. – David Richerby
The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. – Dejan Stojanovic
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. – Gregory Benford - Timescape
This fairy tale we're living is real inside our hearts. – Atlantic Starr
Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. – Dejan Stojanovic
We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity. – Kabbalah
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. – Henry Ward Beecher
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. – Samuel Johnson
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a – Samuel Johnson

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