Favorite Quotes

A collection of some of my favorite quotes, which also appear randomly in the sidebar:

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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

— Ellen Parr

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

— Wernher von Braun

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

— Thomas Paine

When we die, we may be set to write an essay on our life story. Fifty years behind a desk will be summed up in a few paragraphs while a few days in the wilds will expand into the story.

— Stephen Graham

Well the hours are good, but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

— Vogon Guard

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

— Albert Einstein

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

— Mark Twain

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful came out, but that’s not the reason we’re doing it.

— Richard Feynman

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

— Dennis Wholey

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.

— Tim McMahon
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