Wise words...

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel for travel's sake.  The greatest affair is to move.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

-- Samuel Johnson

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Mind the volcano!

-- Lewis Carrol (Through the Looking-Glass, 1871)

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One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver...that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame the lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it 'Go here' or 'Go there,' and make it obey; cannot save a shore that it has sentenced.

-- Mark Twain

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I have a map of the U.S. Scale 1:1. I spent all last summer folding it.

-- Stephen Wright

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If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.

-- Jack Handy

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

--Will Durant

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Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately.

-- Karl Menninger

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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

-- H. G. Wells

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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.

-- Unknown

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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

-- Robert M. Pirsig

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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

-- Albert Szent-Gyorgi

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One of the quickest ways to find out if you are wrong is to state what you believe.

--Penn Jillette

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New ideas pass through three periods: It can't be done. It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. I knew it was a good idea all along!

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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Why is it that if someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?

-- Stephen Wright

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A probability is a desperate attempt of chaos to become stable.

-- Unknown

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Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.

-- Mary Shafer (NASA)

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

-- Paul Valéry

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

-- Arthur Conan Doyle