Popular Famous Quotes If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. ― Voltaire Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. ― Niccolò Machiavelli We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ― Carl Sagan Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ― Friedrich Nietzsche There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. ― Hippocrates Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ― Buddha If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ― Albert Einstein