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Old 15-06-2009, 08:33 PM
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1 - "Nothing exists but atoms and empty space. Everything else is opinion."
Titus Lucretius Carus 99-55 B.C.

2 - "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
Stephen Hawking

3 - “To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
Stephen Hawking

4 - “Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
Stephen Hawking

5 - "Life is short, the art is long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult."
Hippocrates

6 - "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato

7 - "As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
Socrates

8 - "Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it."
Thales


I am a big fan of Stephen Hawking and Greek philosophy....
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