Most are from OMNI's Antimatter Quotes. . .

The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

-H.L. Mencken

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

-Edmund Burke

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

-Albert Einstein

If rational men cooperated and used their scientific knowledge to the full, they could now secure the economic welfare of all.

-Bertrand Russell

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute--and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

-Albert Einstein

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

-Bruce Barton

Given plenty of time, there are few limits to what a technological society can do.

-Freeman Dyson

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

-Thomas H. Huxley

Ninety percent of the work done in this country is done by people who don't feel well.

-Theodore Roosesvelt

At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

-Maeterlinck

It has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean, all the things that we really venerate and honor in our country and are patriotic about. In that sense, this new knowledge has all to do with honor and country, but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.

-Robert R. Wilson, director of Fermilab, in response to Senator John Pastore, who had asked how nuclear accelerators contribute to national defense, 1969.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

-Clifton Fadiman

Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go -- and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

-Wernher Von Braun

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

-Samuel Butler

It suddenly struck me, that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

-Neil Armstrong (returning to Earth on Apollo 11)

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

-Alfred North Whitehead

That the Left in this country has never been enthusiastic about the space program is no surprise. The Left wants to spend all the available money on last month's social problem....The reason for a similar lack of enthusiasm on the Right is more problematical. Just a guess: There is no private property in outer space, and the Vikings and Mariners and Voyagers and Pioneers can't kill Russians.

-John Leonard, in The New York Times, September 12, 1979.

There is more religion in men's science than there is science in their religion.

-Henry David Thoreau

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

-Yuri Gagarin

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

-Albert Einstein

We must welcome the future remembering that soon it will be the past; we must respect the past remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible.

-George Santayana

Freedom is not an essential and basic condition for the growth of science; the care and diligence of government authorities are the most important conditions for this development.

-Vasili N. Tatishchev

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lift human life a little above the level of farce and give it some of the grace of tragedy.

- Steven Weinberg

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

-Patrick Henry

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

-Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds that crawl.

-Mike Adams (in newsletter of Nebraska-Western Iowa Mensa)

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

-Will Rogers

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

-Blaise Pascal