| "Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." »Mark Twain |
| "I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." »John K. Hutchens |
| "What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "science is one thing, wisdom is another. science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers." »Sir Arthur Eddington |
| "science is not a sacred cow. science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it." »Aubrey Eben |
| "I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true." »Carl Sagan |
| "Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "The stream we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science." »Henri Poincare |
| "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." »Jorge Luis Borges |
| "A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology." »Rebecca West |
| "It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week." »Gareth Roberts |
| "A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." »Conan Doyle |
| "Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." »Ivan Pavlov |
| "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." »Carl Sagan |
| "A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life." »Norman Cousins |
| "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." »Albert Einstein |
| "If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people." »Simeon Strunsky |
| "I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." »Sandra Cisneros |
| "The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." »Carl Rowen |
| "People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway." »Simeon Strunsky |
| "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." »Donald J. Adams |
| "When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it." »Marie de Sevigne |
| "It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour." »Vartan Gregorian |
| "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." »Thomas Szasz |
| "Art is science made clear." »Jean Cocteau |
| "Philosophy is the science which considers truth." »Aristotle |
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