A Good Father – Quote by Unknown
“A good father is one of the least acknowledged, praised, or noticed and at the same time most valuable assets of our society.”
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Ernst Hohenemser: The oldest alliance of lying and stupidity
“The oldest and most enduring alliance is that of lying and stupidity.”
Ernst Hohenemser
Edwin Powell Hubble Quote: Why a Privileged Place in the Universe is Unlikely
“Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central earth. The hypothesis cannot be disproved but it is unwelcome and would be accepted only as a last resort in order to save the phenomena. […] But the unwelcome supposition of a favoured location must be avoided at all costs.”
Edwin Powell Hubble
Stephen William Hawking Quote: Understanding Humility Before the Universe
“Now at first sight, all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe. In particular, it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe. There is, however, an alternate explanation: the universe might look the same in every direction as seen from any other galaxy too. This, as we have seen, was Friedmann’s second assumption. We have no scientific evidence for, or against, this assumption. We believe it only on grounds of modesty”
Stephen William Hawking
Quote by Steven Spielberg about his first movie experience
“My dad took me to my first movie. It was ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.”
Steven Spielberg
Guy Consolmagno on the Universe, Science and Truth
“Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.”
Guy Consolmagno
“Inflation is taxation without legislation” – Milton Friedman
“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”
Milton Friedman
“Higher taxes never reduce the deficit” – Milton Friedman
“Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.”
Milton Friedman
Murray Rothbard on the Federal Reserve and Inflation
“The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing less than a deceptive shell game. The culprit solely responsible for inflation, the Federal Reserve, is continually engaged in raising a hue-and-cry about ‘inflation,’ for which virtually everyone else in society seems to be responsible. What we are seeing is the old ploy by the robber who starts shouting ‘Stop, thief!’ and runs down the street pointing ahead at others.”
Murray Rothbard
Quote About Power and Responsibility by Walter Lippmann
“It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.”
Walter Lippmann