Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. -C.S. Lewis
I always knew that bees could fly. Now we have proof.
The flight of the humble honeybee was once so baffling that mathematicians famously concluded it was impossible. But using high-speed cameras and a scale model robot scientists have at last worked out the secret that helps bees stay aloft.Glad we finally got that one squared away.
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"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.'"
"I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
"One man with courage makes a majority."
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
"When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do."
"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
"But what is strength without a double share of wisdom?"
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
"What we hope ever to do with ease we must first learn to do with diligence."
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
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