Josh Wakefield's Favorite Quotes

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Chemistry leads man into the domain of those latent forces whose power controls the whole material world.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Git thar fust with the most men.
All the rules, statutes, restraining orders, 911 calls, hand to hand combat techniques, aerosol spray mace, or other pseudo protective measures will never equal the effectiveness of a firearm when faced with an unwarranted and deadly criminal attack.
Throw up a handful of feathers, and all must fall to the ground, according to definite laws. But, how simple is this problem compared to the action and reaction of the innumerable plants and animals which have determined, in the course of centuries, the proportional numbers and kinds of trees now growing?
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
Be sure you're right, then go ahead.
Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
We are star stuff.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I would rather understand one cause than be King of Persia.
Death is generally prompt and the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
If you're ever in a situation where another person is about to murder you, at that moment, you'd trade all your worldly possessions for a firearm.
What I can not create I can not understand.
Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.
Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things -- that takes religion.
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