"Yet the most important thing we can do to improve our future is the most personal: to extend a sense of grace and tolerance toward the people who disagree with us or who are different from us in some way-even those who attack us. This sense of forgive ness starts with each of us."

 Andrew Yang, Forward

"It turns out that the scientist behaves the way the rest of us do when our beliefs are in conflict with the evidence. We become irritated, we pretend the conflict does not exist, or we paper it over with meaningless phrases."

Robert Jastrow, in God and the Astronomers

"To never harbor self-doubt is poison poison for the soul,"

"and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us."
-Sadeq, from Charles Stross' Accelerando

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story.”

-C.S. Lewis in On Three Ways of Writing for Children

"Responsibility rests upon recognition"

-Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

"I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it."

Homer H. Hickam Jr., Rocket Boys

"A leader needs the truth, but an emperor does not consistently hear it from his underlings."

-James Comey