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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
Jan 30 2014
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Jan 27 2014
– George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
Dec 10 2013
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an American poet, painter, liberal activist. Best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over one million copies.
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Nov 1 2013
– Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
Sep 28 2013
– J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland.
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
Apr 27 2013
– Albert Camus, was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism.
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Apr 21 2013
– Dorothy Parker, was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
Apr 18 2013
– Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
Apr 4 2013
– Victor Hugo, was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers.
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
Apr 2 2013
– George R. R. Martin, an American screenwriter and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted by HBO for their dramatic series Game of Thrones.
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Mar 31 2013
– Arthur Schopenhauer, was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation. He has influenced a long list of thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein and Leo Tolstoy.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Mar 30 2013
– J. R. R. Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Mar 27 2013
– Aldous Huxley, was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He is best known for his novel Brave New World.
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Mar 23 2013
– Robert A. Heinlein, an American science fiction writer. Often called the “dean of science fiction writers”, he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time.
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
Jan 20 2013
– Dr Seuss, an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books.
