What is your favorite quote?
Ooh! That’s a tough one. There are so many…
However, if I were pressed, I would have to go with these, which cover the major institutions that shape society.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
–H L Mencken
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
–Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Second Book of the HHGTTG)
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
–Issac Asimov
And so I have addressed religion, politics and science, but if you will indulge me, I would add one more; a great life lesson, coincidentally from a scientist:
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
–Marie Curie
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