We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert. J. Robert Oppenheimer
1904-1967, Physicist, director of the Los Alamos laboratory during development of the atomic bomb
If it’s true that we are here to help others, then …
If it’s true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for? George Carlin
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be …
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881
The purpose of a jury is to guard against the exercise of …
The purpose of a jury is to guard against the exercise of arbitrary power–to make available the common sense judgement of the community as a hedge against the overzealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps over conditioned or biased response of a judge. Byron White
1975, Supreme Court Justice
The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn’t suck is the …
The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn’t suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. Unknown
I am not a Virginian, but an American. Patrick Henry Patrick Henry, …
I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry, September 1774
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. …
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. Cal Thomas
nationally syndicated columnist.
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll…. It …
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll…. It does not mean that everything in life is relative. Albert Einstein
1929, on attempts to use relativity as a scientific explanation for why there could be no objective truth. See David Bodanis, E=mc(*2): A Biography of the World’s most Famous Equation.(1879-1955)
It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned …
It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it is the return of my investment. Will Rogers
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort…….
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort….is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence. Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)