THE DIVERSE
ORIGINS OF PHILOSOPHY 
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
“Every individual matters. 
Every individual has a role to play.
Every individual makes a difference.”
––Jane Goodall
“Science is part of the reality of living. It is the 
way, the how and the why for everything 
in our experience.”
––Rachel Carson
“No great discovery was ever made 
without a bold guess.”
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––Isaac Newton
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“I am among those who think that
science has great beauty.”
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––Marie Curie
“Those who can imagine
can create the impossible.”
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––Alan Turing
“The authority of a thousand is not worth
The humble reasoning of a single individual.”
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––Galileo Galilei
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I've been rewarded for asking the maize plant to solve problems and waiting for its responses.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation is preserved Natural Selection.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
“I’ve been rewarded for asking maize to solve problems and watching for responses.”
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––Barbara McClintock
“I have called this principle, by which each 
variation is preserved Natural Selection.”
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––Charles Darwin
“Logic will get you from A to B.
imagination will take you everywhere.”
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––Albert Einstein
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There's geometry in the humming of the strings and music in the spacing of the stars.
“There’s geometry in the humming of the strings and music in the spacing of the stars.”
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––Pythagoras
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid .”
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––Hedy Lamarr
Reserve your right to think for even to think poorly is better than not to think ar all. Hypatia
“Reserve your right to think, for even 
to think poorly is better than 
not to think at all.”
––Hypatia
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“No great mind ever existed 
without a touch of madness.”
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––Aristotle
“One can not conceive anything so implausible that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.”
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––Rene Descartes
“Art is never finished,
It’s merely abandoned.”
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––Leonardo Da Vinci
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The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
“Eureka!
(I have found it.)”
––Archimedes
“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, 
constitutes our abundance.”
––Epicurus
“Silence is the true friend
that never betrays.”
––Confucius
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