Meditation: "Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back." - The Buddha
Polytheism: "Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth." - Homer
Masonry: "It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls." - Aristophanes
Horseback Riding: "If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." - Turkish Proverb
Writing: "True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read." - Pliny the Elder
Mathematics: "If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics." - Roger Bacon
Currency: "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." - Publius Syrus
Drama: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. " - William Shakespeare
Optics: "One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore." - Andre Gide
Philosophy: "I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law." - Aristotle
Bureaucracy: “Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.” Oscar Wilde
Banking: "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson
Nationalism: "A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him." - Napoleon Bonaparte
Printing press: "What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind." - Wendell Phillips
Military tradition: "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." - Sun-Tzu
Economics: "Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe." - Albert Einstein
Steam Power: "You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense." - Napoleon, on Robert Fulton's Steamship
Physics: "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction." - Isaac Newton
Medicine: "As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm." - Hippocrates
Combustion: "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." - E. B. White
Refrigeration: "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Plastics: "I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics." - Calder Willingham
Genetics: "Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease." - Bob Edwards
Robotics: "The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner
Fusion: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Scientific method: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
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