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Talk:Science

Theories
There's a quote I cannot quite recall about how to advance a new theory one must simply wait for the old guard to die out.

Mistakes in Science, Nature of Science
This Box quote:

"All models are wrong, but some are useful". - George E. P. Box

is now in the "Mistakes in Science" section.

It should be in the "Nature of Science" section. It is closely related to this Popper quote:

"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification." - Karl Popper

Which is already in the "Nature of Science" section

Disregard the above message - I just made the change myself - I didn't realize how open this system really is - remarkable - I must be careful of typos!!

Mistakes in science
What are the criteria for entries in the Mistakes in science section? --161.111.20.32 14:40, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Answers vs. questions
I heard this quote on a science program in the 1980s:

 * “The scientist’s job isn’t to find answers but to find questions.”

Does anyone know where this is from? Morganfitzp 13:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * The great testimony of history shows how often in fact the development of science has emerged in response to technological and even economic needs, and how in the economy of social effort, science, even of the most abstract and recondite kind, pays for itself again and again in providing the basis for radically new technological developments. In fact, most people—when they think of science as a good thing, when they think of it as worthy of encouragement, when they are willing to see their governments spend substance upon it, when they greatly do honor to men who in science have attained some eminence-have in mind that the conditions of their life have been altered just by such technology, of which they may be reluctant to be deprived.
 * Robert Oppenheimer

 * Start by eliminating the possibility of empty models by praying that Heaven will no longer put this invention of the Devil in our way. To do this, we add a constant c to our language ...
 * Proof of the compactness theorem by Henkin's method
 * Bruno Poizat and M. Klein, A Course in Model Theory: An Introduction to Contemporary Mathematical Logic, unidentified edition, page 52.

 * Who are we? The answer to this question is not only one of the tasks but the task of science.
 * Erwin Schrodinger, Science and Humanism, 1953, unidentified edition/chapter/page

 * I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.
 * Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1859, unidentified edition/chapter/page

 * One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.
 * James D. Watson, Darwin: The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea, 2005, Running Press, unidentified edition/chapter/page

 * The Scientific Revolution turns us away from the older sayings to discover the lost authorization in Nature. What we have been through in these last four millennia is the slow inexorable profaning of our species. And in the last part of the second millennium A.D., that process is apparently becoming complete. It is the Great Human Irony of our noblest and greatest endeavor on this planet that in the quest for authorization, in our reading of the language of God in Nature, we should read there so clearly that we have been so mistaken.
 * Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 1976, unidentified edition/chapter/page

 * That Professor Goddard with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course, he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
 * About Robert Goddard's rocket work
 * Unidentified New York Times editorial, 1921
 * Eventually retracted in New York Times, unidentified article/editorial, July 17, 1969

 * All models are wrong, but some are useful.
 * George E. P. Box

 * All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
 * Ernest Rutherford
 * Variation: In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

 * Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
 * Edsger Dijkstra

 * Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
 * Albert Einstein

 * In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
 * Mark Twain

 * ...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
 * Albert Einstein

 * Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
 * Albert Einstein

 * Science is all metaphor.
 * Timothy Leary

 * Science is the pavement in the pathway to opportunities
 * Jordan Campbell

 * Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
 * Donald Knuth

 * Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
 * Louis Pasteur

 * Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
 * Karl Popper

 * Scientific thought is the common heritage of mankind.
 * Abdus Salam

 * The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
 * Albert Einstein

 * To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
 * Copernicus

 * Physics is like sex: Sure, it may have practical results, but that is not the reason we do it.
 * Richard Feynman

 * Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.
 * George Bernard Shaw

 * We've discovered the secret of life.
 * Francis Crick, 28 February 1953

 * Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
 * Carl Sagan

 * Who ordered that?
 * Theorist Isidor Isaac Rabi when the muon was identified

 * Science is nothing but developed perception, integrated intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
 * George Santayana

Science and religion

 *  See also: Creationism and Intelligent Design, Evolution.

 * Let's put the genes back in Genesis.
 * Jasper Winkel

 * The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.
 * H. L. Mencken

 * A contradiction (between science and religion) is out of the question. What follows from science are, again and again, clear indications of God's activity which can be so strongly perceived that Kepler dared to say (for us it seems daring, not for him) that he could "almost touch God with his hand in the Universe".
 * Walter Heitler

 * The deepest intelligence of philosophy and science are inseparable from a religious view of the world.
 * Rudjer Boskovic

 * The difference between myth and science is the difference between divine inspiration of 'unaided reason' on the one hand and theories developed in observational contact with the real world on the other. [It is] the difference between the belief in prophets and critical thinking, between Credo quia absurdum [I believe because it is absurd—Tertullian.] and De omnibus est dubitandum [Everything should be questioned—Descartes.]. To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly large regions of space and time is science.
 * H. Alfvén

 * The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.
 * F. Dessauer

 * I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.
 * Augustin Louis Cauchy

 * I stand before you as somebody who is both physicist and a priest, and I want to hold together my scientific and my religious insights and experiences. I want to hold them together, as far as I am able, without dishonesty and without compartmentalism. I don't want to be a priest on Sunday and a physicist on Monday; I want to be both on both days.
 * John Polkinghorne

 * It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
 * Albert Einstein

 * Je n'ai pas besoin de cette hypothèse.
 * Pierre-Simon Laplace
 * Translation: I have no need of that hypothesis.
 * Reputed reply to Emperor Napoleon I of France, who had asked why he hadn't mentioned God in his discourse on secular variations of the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter.

 * Matter and mind are not separate, they are aspects of one energy. Look at the mind as a function of matter and you have science; look at matter as the product of the mind and you have religion.
 * Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 * The more we know of things, the more we know of God.
 * Baruch Spinoza

 * The order, the symmetry, the harmony enchant us…God is pure order. He is the originator of universal harmony.
 * Gottfried Leibniz

 * Overwhelming evidences of an intelligence and benevolent intention surround us, show us the whole of nature through the work of a free will and teach us that all alive beings depend on an eternal creator-ruler.
 * Lord Kelvin

 * Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.
 * John W. Draper

 * Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, letter to Charles Kingsley (23 September 1860).

 * Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
 * Albert Einstein

 * Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. An infinitely old universe, always evolving may not be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end. Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.
 * H. Alfvén

 * The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.
 * Isaac Newton

 * Those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight…
 * Blaise Pascal

 * Through steady observation and a meaningful contact with the divined order of the world's structure, arranged by God's wisdom, - who would not be guided to admire the Builder who creates all!
 * Copernicus

 * We may conclude that from what science teaches us, there is in nature an order independent of man's existence, a meaningful order to which nature and man are subordinate. Both Religion and science require faith in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations…..
 * Max Planck

 * Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
 * Eric Hoffer

 * "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
 * Albert Einstein

 * I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind
 * Albert Einstein

 * The lives and writings of the mystics of all great religions bear witness to religious experiences of great intensity, in which considerable changes are effected in the quality of consciousness. Profound absorption in prayer or meditation can bring about a deepening and widening, a brightening and intensifying, of consciousness, accompanied by a transporting feeling of rapture and bliss. The contrast between these states and normal conscious awareness is so great that the mystic believes his experiences to be manifestations of the divine; and given the contrast, this assumption is quite understandable. Mystical experiences are also characterized by a marked reduction or temporary exclusion of the multiplicity of sense-perceptions and restless thoughts. This relative unification of mind is then interpreted as a union or communion with the One God. ... The psychological facts underlying those religious experiences are accepted by the Buddhist and are well-known to him; but he carefully distinguishes the experiences themselves from the theological interpretations imposed upon them. ... The meditator will not be overwhelmed by any uncontrolled emotions and thoughts evoked by his singular experience, and will thus be able to avoid interpretations of that experience not warranted by the facts. Hence a Buddhist meditator, while benefiting from the refinement of consciousness he has achieved, will be able to see these meditative experiences for what they are; and he will further know that they are without any abiding substance that could be attributed to a deity manifesting itself to his mind. Therefore, the Buddhist’s conclusion must be that the highest mystical states do not provide evidence for the existence of a personal God or an impersonal godhead.
 * Nyanaponika Thera, "Buddhism and the God-Idea" (1962)

 * This method of Bare Attention, so helpful to mind-knowledge and, through it, to world-knowledge, tallies with the procedure and attitude of the true scientist and scholar: clear definition of subject-matter and terms; unprejudiced receptivity for the instruction that comes out of the things themselves; exclusion, or at least reduction, of the subjective factor in judgment; deferring of judgment until a careful examination of facts has been made.
 * Nyanaponika Thera(1965), The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, p. 39

Scientists

 * I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.
 * Max Born

 * I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.
 * Albert Einstein

 * Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
 * Marie Curie

 * Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
 * Niels Bohr

 * Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
 * Albert Einstein

 * You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 to the 12 to 1 against.
 * Ernest Rutherford

Science and culture

 * Can science ever be immune from experiments conceived out of prejudices and stereotypes, conscious or not? (Which is not to suggest that it cannot in discrete areas identify and locate verifiable phenemonena in nature.)  I await the study that says lesbians have a region of the hypothalamus that resembles straight men and I would not be surprised if, at this very moment, some scientist somewhere is studying brains of deceased Asians to see if they have an enlarged "math region" of the brain.
 * Kay Diaz, Z (unidentified periodical, possibly Z Magazine), unidentified article, December 1992.

 * The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
 * Carl Sagan

 * The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
 * Sir Francis Bacon

 * It's not exactly rocket science.
 * Said about something easy or self-explanatory.
 * Anonymous

 * Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you.... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.
 * Raimond Verwei (also credited to Albert Einstein).

 * We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.  This is a prescription for disaster.  We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
 * Carl Sagan

 * Science is the refusal to believe in the basis of hope.
 * C. P. Snow

Mistakes in science

 * The science of Psychiatry is now where the science of Medicine was before germs were discovered.
 * Malcolm Rogers

 * There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
 * Albert Einstein, 1932.

 * There will never be a bigger plane built.
 * A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin-engine plane that holds ten people

 * I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
 * Andreas Vesalius

The Science Quotes Page
is nice, but it would be great if the quotes were arranged by topic. Is there a page for that perchance? 4.246.164.140 14:46, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Off-topic quote?
Can User:Mdd provide more information about why the quote below is off-topic? Williams is criticizing a very popular anti-science position that claims natural science's truth claims are "socially constructed." ~ Peter1c (talk) 21:38, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * A further turn is to be found in some "unmasking" accounts of natural science, which aim to show that its pretensions to deliver the truth are unfounded, because of social forces that control its activities. Unlike the case of history, these do not use truths of the same kind; they do not apply science to the criticism of science. They apply the social sciences, and typically depend on the remarkable assumption that the sociology of knowledge is in a better position to deliver truth about science than science is to deliver truth about the world.
 * Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness (2002)

After adding this quote to the Sociology of knowledge lemma, I noticed the same quote was already present in the Bernard Williams, Epistemology, Skepticism, Truth, Social constructionism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism & Science lemma's. Now I removed the last three, because they are not on topic. While the author and source are very notable, the quote itself is not. It doesn't stand on it's own, and just slightly mentions truth, and not even Epistemology and Skepticism. I think this quote should be removed there as well. I think that only if a quote is more notable, it should be added to multiple lemma's in Wikiquote. -- Mdd (talk) 22:01, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

 * Hi Mdd. Thanks for the reply. I have no issue with removing this quote from Postmodernism and Deconstruction, since there is another Williams quote on those pages that offers a similar argument. I understand the quote is challenging to understand, but it does express a notable and important position about the epistemic status of science, and I think meany Wikiquote readers will find it helpful and informative, as it was for me. ~ Peter1c (talk) 22:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

 * Thanks, I think that, if there is such "notable and important position," it will be acknowledged by secondary sources. The fact that the source itself is cited 1000+ times, suggests that the work does contain one or more "notable and important position(s)," and these can be found by examining secondary sources. -- Mdd (talk) 22:40, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

 * The quote is very clearly on-topic for the Science article, being about how the nature of natural science is misconstrued by some practitioners of social "science". (Nor is it so obscure or abstruse that nobody quotes it: see Michael W. Hill, The Impact of Information on Society (2nd edition reprint 2005) p. 41.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:23, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

 * Thanks, I have re-added the quote with the secondary source. -- Mdd (talk) 13:47, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (2 April 1939 – 1 April 1984) was an American pop, soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, earning him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".

That Stubborn Kinda Fellow (1962)

 * Oh, I've got news for you Baby, that I've made plans for two I guess I'm just a stubborn kind of fellow Got my mind made up to love you.
 * Stubborn Kind of Fellow, co-written with William "Mickey" Stevenson and George Gordy.

 * You are my pride and joy And I just love you, little darlin' Like a baby boy loves his toy You've got kisses sweeter than honey And I work every day to give you all I know And that's why you're my pride and joy.
 * Pride and Joy, co-written with William "Mickey" Stevenson and Norman Whitfield.

 * By the look in your eye I can tell you're gonna cry. Is it over me? If it is, save your tears For I'm not worth it, you see. For I'm the type of boy who is always on the roam, Wherever I lay my hat that's my home, I'm telling you that's my home.
 * Wherever I Lay My Hat, co-written with Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield.

What's Going On (1971)

 * Mother, mother There's too many of you crying. Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying. You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.
 * What's Going On, co-written with Al Cleveland, and Renaldo "Obie" Benson.

 * Father, father We don't need to escalate. You see, war is not the answer For only love can conquer hate. You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.
 * What's Going On.

 *  Picket lines and picket signs Don't punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what's going on What's going on.
 * What's Going On.

 * Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong Oh, but who are they to judge us Simply because our hair is long Oh, you know we've got to find a way To bring some understanding here today.
 * What's Going On.

 * Hey baby, what'cha know good? I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would. War is hell, when will it end? When will people start gettin' together again?
 * What's Happening Brother, co-written with James Nyx, Jr.

 * I just want to ask a question: Who really cares? To save a world in despair There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin' Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin' Who really cares? Who's willing to try to save a world That's destined to die?
 * Save the Children, co-written with Al Cleveland and Renaldo Benson.

 * Woo ah, mercy mercy me. Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no. Where did all the blue skies go?
 * Mercy Mercy Me.

 * Oh mercy, mercy me. Ah things ain't what they used to be. What about this overcrowded land? How much more abuse from man can she stand? Oh, na na... My sweet Lord... No.
 * Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology).

 * Rockets, moon shots Spend it on the have nots Money, we make it 'Fore we see it you take it Oh, make you wanna holler The way they do my life Make me wanna holler.
 * Inner City Blues, co-written with James Nyx, Jr.

 * Crime is increasing Trigger happy policing Panic is spreading God know where we're heading Oh, make me wanna holler They don't understand.
 * Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler).

Trouble Man (1972)

 * I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm cool I didn't make it surely, playin' by the rules I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm fine I'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the line I've come of heart, baby, but that's OK 'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way.
 * Trouble Man

Let's Get It On (1973)

 * I've been really tryin, baby Tryin to hold back these feelings for so long And if you feel, like I feel baby Come on, oh come on, Let's get it on.
 * Let's Get It On, co-written with Ed Townsend

 * Stop beatin round the bush, Let's get it on.
 * Let's Get It On.

 * Oh, If I should die tonight Oh baby, though it be far before my time I won't die blue, sugar yeah 'Cause I've known you.
 * If I Should Die Tonight, co-written with Ed Townsend.

 * Oooh, oh, how many eyes Have seen their dream? Oh, how many arms Have felt their dream? How many hearts, baby... Have felt their world stand still?
 * If I Should Die Tonight.

 * Won't you rather make love, children As opposed to war, like you know you should?
 * ''Keep Gettin' It On, co-written with Ed Townsend.

 * Ooo remember, baby, how you made me feel just like a king? Ah, I've been waiting I'm ready for you to start doin' the things So I'll know you're mine. You're so fine, so petite, oh candy sweet. Ah, I've been waiting. Come here, baby, get to this.
 * Come Get to This.

 * Distant lover, ooo, sugar How can you treat my heart so mean and cruel? Didn't you know, sugar, that I dream Of what I spent with you? I treasure it like it was a precious jewel, oh baby. Lord have mercy!
 * Distant Lover, co-written with Gwen Gordy and Sandra Greene.

Midnight Love (1982)

 * Ooh, baby let's get down tonight Baby I'm hot just like an oven I need some lovin' And baby, I can't hold it much longer It's getting stronger and stronger And when I get that feeling I want Sexual Healing. Sexual Healing, baby Makes me feel so fine Helps to relieve my mind. Sexual Healing baby, is good for me Sexual Healing is something that's good for me.
 * Sexual Healing, co-written with Odell Brown and David Ritz.

 * Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up, let's make love tonight Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, 'cos you do it right.
 * Sexual Healing.

 * My baby ohhh Come take control, just grab a hold Of my body and mind; soon we'll be making it Honey, oh we're feeling fine You're my medicine. Open up and let me in. Darling, you're so great; I can't wait for you to operate.
 * Sexual Healing.

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Leo Buscaglia

Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia Ph.D. (31 March 1924 – 11 June 1998), also known as "Dr. Love," was an American author, motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.

Quotes

 * It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
 * Born For Love (1994)

LOVE (1972)

 * A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

 * As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

 * It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

 * One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

 * This loving person is a person who abhors waste — waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

 * Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

 * We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.

 * We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

 * To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness. It is understanding and appreciating the idea that you will be the only you to ever live upon this earth, that when you die so will all of your fantastic possibilities. It is the realization that even you are not totally aware of the wonders which lie dormant within yourself.

 * Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.
 * p 127

 * Perfect love is rare indeed — for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
 * pp 198-199

Speaking Of Love (1980)

 * Go around — listen to how many times a day you say, "I love" instead of, "I hate." Isn't it interesting that children, as they learn the process of language, always learn the word "no" years before they learn the word "yes"? Ask linguists where they hear it. Maybe if they heard more of "I love, I love, I love" they'd hear it sooner and more often.

 * DON'T MISS LOVE. It's an incredible gift. I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as your birthday present. It frightens me to think that so few people even bother to open up the ribbon! Rip it open! Tear off the top! It's just full of love and magic and joy and wonder and pain and tears. All of the things that are your gift for being human.

 * Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, "Oh yes, you're so right," but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!

 * The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

 * When I wrote my book, LOVE, it was really funny, because my publisher said, "Oh, Leo, you're going to have to change the name because I'm sure that someone has used that name before." I said, "Why don't you send it in and see what happens?" So we sent it in and I got the "copyright" for LOVE! No one had ever thought of a book called simply Love. L-O-V-E. Such a good word. Such a limitless word. Such a limitless concept.

 * Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)

 * I will love you no matter what. I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being——I will love you no matter.
 * p. 53

 * People are not here to meet your expectations.

 * To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

 * I have a lot of things in my classes that I call "voluntarily mandatory." One of the things that is voluntarily mandatory is that every student come to see me in my office at least once. I cannot teach bodies. I can only relate to people. And so I say, "Come in, and we will sit across from one another. I don't want to talk about the texts or the class. We can do that another time. I just want to know the last time you saw a unicorn and do you still believe in primeval forests. And when you come, I am going to touch you — and if that bothers you, take your tranquilizer." It is amazing how many are intimidated by someone who says, "I want to touch you." I was raised in a large Italian family, as most of you know, and everybody hugs everybody all the time. On holidays everyone gets together, and it takes forty-five minutes just to say hello and forty-five minutes to say goodbye. Babies, parents, dogs — everyody's got to be loved! And so I have never suffered that existential feeling of not being. If someone can hug you and not go through you, you are. Try it sometime.

 * About two years ago a young lady came into my office, and I knew immediately something was wrong. Her eyes were kind of glazed, and her head was nodding, and I asked, "What's the matter" She replied, "Oh, Dr. Buscaglia, in order to get enough courage to come to see you, I had to drink a whole bottle of Ripple! And I think I am going to be sick!" Imagining... having to drink a bottle of Ripple to summon up the courage to come to see me. All I do is put my hands out and say, "Hi." I cover their hands with mine and lead them into my office, and I can see a look of panic on their faces, "What's he going to do to me?" I am not going to do anything to you! I just want you to know that I cry, too, and I feel, too, and I care, too, and I don't know everything, too, and therefore, we can start with a common frame of reference — human being to human being. If anybody tries to play the game of "follow the guru" with me, they will be lost, for they will learn that I am just as confused as they are. The difference may be that I know it. A Buddhist teacher once said to me, "Why do you keep moving? You are already there." And all of a sudden it occurred to me — my goodness, I am!

A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

 * Interview with Veronica M. Hay

 * I started my Love Class as a result of the suicide of one of my most talented students. She showed no sign of her despair. Then one day she took her life. I had to ask, "What's the good of all our learning, knowing how to read and write and spell if no one ever teaches us the value of life, of our uniqueness, and personal dignity?" So I started my Love Class. I taught it free of salary and tuition just so students could have a forum to consider the truly essential things.''' I really didn't "teach" the class. I facilitated it — helping the students to discover their own magic.

 * We take love for granted. We assume we are all perfect lovers and all we need do is wait and our love will grow and blossom as readily as a flower in spring. Not so. Love doesn't grow unless we do. It takes patience, knowledge, experience, determination, and every positive trait we possess. In addition, love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

 * We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the "capacity" to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the "ability."

 * A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

 * I don't believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it's unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another's joy, development, or unique perceptions.

 * We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made — everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

 * The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.

 * We can ask ourselves daily what we have done to make the world a better place, to make someone smile, to help someone to feel more secure, etc. It's the simple things which have the greatest effect. We must never underestimate the strength of a smile or act of kindness.

 * We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

 * You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.

 * I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.

 * I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

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 * My first memory was of the sound of bugles.

 * This is where I came from, and I thank a merciful God that I am able to return.
 * Upon returning to his old school, T.M.I.-Episcopal in San Antonio

 * You only grow old by deserting your ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, giving up wrinkles the soul.

 * You are remembered for the rules you break.
 * Variant: we are known for the rules we break not the rules we follow.

 * Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

 * commenting retrospectively on General Eisenhower, his Chief of Staff in the Philippines prior to WWII- "He was the best clerk I ever had."

 * after hearing of the appalling high casualties on the European front compared to his SW Pacific front  " Good commanders don't turn in heavy casualties"

 * "Never get involved in a land war in Asia."

Misattributed

 * We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. (recte: Maj. Gen. Oliver Prince Smith)

"Anyone wanting to commit American ground forces to the mainland of Asia should have his head examined."
Did he say it? Fxm12 03:55, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Indeed he did -- http://books.google.com/books?id=KS-6XrdalGkC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102#v=onepage&q&f=false

 * And James W. Douglass would never misquote anyone, right?

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. It is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a "Canberran". The site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nation's capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities. It is unusual among Australian cities, being an entirely planned city outside of any state, similar to the American Federal District of Columbia.

Quotes

 * A good sheep station ruined.
 * Anonymous, early 20th century, quoted in James McDonald, "A Good Sheep Station Ruined", Australian Journal of Biography and History, 2, 2019

 * Canberra: There's nothing to it! Canberra: Why wait for death? Canberra: Gateway to everywhere else!
 * Bill Bryson in Down Under, 2000 ISBN 055299703X

 * Any journalist worth his salt doesn't think any good story can't be improved a bit. The Canberra press gallery, where I served most of my journalistic life, could prove the case. It might well be the quietest day of a peaceful recess, not a speck of news to be had anywhere; but next day's papers have to appear and columns have to be filled. The boys pass one another in the corridor with always the same lugubrious questions and answers. "Quiet, isn't it?" "Yes, dead." Later they gather at a convivial spot and lament the lack of events and stories. They will have a drink on that to let it seep in. They'll have another few snorts and gradually the ideas will begin to germinate. Next day, when there hasn't been a single politician within a coo-ee of Canberra, devouring readers will learn that "Informed opinion in the Canberra lobbies thinks ...", or "Those in a position to express an opinion believe ..." And so it goes on.
 * Jack Fingleton, Introduction to Batting from Memory (1981)

 * I have planned a city not like any other city in the world. I have planned it not in a way that I expected any governmental authorities in the world would accept. I have planned an ideal city, a city that meets my ideal of the city of the future.
 * Walter Burley Griffin, talking of his plan for Canberra, 1912, from The New York Times, Sunday, June 2, 1912

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Wikiquote:Deletion policy

All text created in the Wikiquote main namespace is subject to several important rules covering criteria for articles (what Wikiquote is not), quote compendium quality (accuracy, sourcing, and verifiability), editorial approach (neutral point of view), as well as the Wikiquote copyright policy. Articles and text which are capable of meeting these should usually be remedied by editing, but content which fails inclusion criteria for Wikiquote, is incapable of verification with reputable sources, or is in breach of copyright policy, is usually deleted.

Deletion of a Wikiquote article removes the current version and all previous versions from view. Unlike page blanking, which can be performed (or reverted) by any user, deletion can be performed only by administrators. In the normal operations of Wikiquote, somewhere between 50 and 200 pages are deleted each month, in accordance with a deletion process that is open to all users.

This page describes how pages which are believed to be suitable for deletion should be handled, explains the various deletion options and processes, and summarizes a number of common problems with Wikiquote articles that may call for deletion as well as alternatives to deletion.

Procedure for deletion
If a page does not fall into one of the categories listed under Speedy deletions, then it cannot be deleted until it has spent at least seven days on Votes for deletion.

What to do with a problem page/image/category
Does the page really belong on VfD? Read the following two tables to find out what to do with a problem page.

See also: Template messages

If you feel the page under consideration meets the above guidelines for listing at Votes for deletion, you can nominate it there by following the instructions at the top of WQ:VFD. Be sure to give the reason why you think it should be deleted. It will remain there for a time, giving other users the chance to comment on whether they think deletion is in fact appropriate. After an appropriate lag time, an administrator will delete the page if a rough consensus is reached (see guidelines of deletion rough consensus).

For candidates for speedy deletion, administrators do not have to request deletion — they may delete them on sight.

"Listed for deletion" notice
When you list a page on Votes for deletion, it is necessary to let its readers know it might be deleted, regardless of whether it is a brand-new page or an old one with a long history. The way to do this is to place a vfd-new tag above the page's content, which expands to:

This notice is intended to encourage readers to join in the deletion discussion, and to give readers and new users a chance to understand why a page may be removed. If a redirect is nominated for deletion, it should also include the tag at the top. This will break the redirection, but is the only practical means to notify users of the redirect that it is under discussion for deletion.

If you are nominating a template for deletion, please add   to the top of the template. This will provide a tiny, discreet alert on the pages using this template, identifying the template under deletion consideration and providing a link to its discussion. (See Template:vfd-template-new for important usage details.)

Lag times
Once a page is listed for deletion, the nomination is kept open for a period of time to allow for community comment. The different deletion nomination methods have different "lag times" (the length of time that the page should normally be listed before the article can be deleted). This gives other users the chance to comment on whether they think deletion is in fact appropriate. The lag times are currently set at:

 * Category:Candidates for speedy deletion - no lag
 * Votes for deletion -

Commenting on a listing for deletion
When someone has listed an article for deletion on one of the lists, anyone else may comment on the request. When expressing an opinion, please include your opinion and your reasoning, and sign with  (four consecutive tilde characters). The following are some suggested wordings. There is a list of these and other commonly used shorthands at Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. The bolding of action votes (by placing three apostrophes (  ''') on each side) makes it easier for admins to count and review the votes at decision time. However, except for the signature, these are guidelines, not requirements. Note to adminstrators: "merge into article and redirect" requires that the information on authorship of the content is somehow preserved, unless it is solely public domain text.
 * Delete. (optional explanation) ~
 * Keep. (optional explanation) ~
 * Redirect to article . (optional explanation) ~
 * Merge into article and redirect. (optional explanation) ~
 * Move to other Wiki project. (optional explanation) ~
 * Comment. (comment text; not a vote) ~
 * (other action)

Decision policy
For pages listed on Votes for deletion, if a rough consensus has been reached by the end of the lag time to delete the page, the page will be removed. Otherwise the page remains. Note that what a rough consensus is is not set in stone. Some consider a 2/3 majority a "rough consensus", while others believe consensus implies a higher ratio. Administrators must use their best judgment to discern a consensus. Consensus is not merely a vote, as administrators have no way to guarantee one-person, one-vote participation, and all pages within Wikiquote must abide by the consensuses of established Wikiquote policy and Wikimedia Foundation rules and guidelines as well as the current opinions given in each discussion. Administrators are also encouraged to consider the involvement of the discussion participants in general Wikiquote work to avoid "ballot stuffing" by groups of one-time users only interested in single articles. (See w:Wikipedia:Voting is evil and w:WP:NOT for more discussion on why strict voting is impractical for Wikimedia projects.)

Pages that have been improved along the lines of the discussion and general Wikiquote practices may also remain if the improvement has been sufficient to make the rationale for the original deletion nomination no longer relevant. This requires a reason to be given initially when requesting that a page be deleted.

Please do not remove any votes from any VfD or like discussion. If you suspect that a vote comes from a sockpuppet or is otherwise invalid, mark it as such with a comment, list any pertinent links, and leave it there. Admins reviewing the discussion will investigate and decide whether or not to take that vote into account, and may strike multiple votes by a single user, or "forged" votes (signed as someone other than the user shown in the edit history). But by not removing any votes, we ensure that there can be no arguments over who removed what and why.

Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators expands on this and provides a little rationale.

Finishing a vote for deletion
There are five basic steps to completing a VfD discussion:
 * 1) Determine consensus and close the vote.
 * 2) Take any required action on the named article(s).
 * 3) Create an archive copy from the closed discussion with the page name.
 * 4) Move the VfD entry to the appropriate month page in Votes for deletion/Log.
 * 5) Remove the discussion from Votes for deletion.

At any point after the end of the lag time or announced vote closure time (ideally ), an administrator will determine whether there is a consensus. No consensus is, by default, a community decision to keep. The admin's finding should be clearly recorded in the VfD entry so the community will know the result without reading the entire discussion (which may be quite long). If a  line was provided in the VfD discussion, it should be changed to   and show the result. Note that unlike Wikipedia, only an administrator may close a VfD.

As soon as possible after closing, an admin will take the specified action on the article.

 * If the vote was to keep, the vfd-new tag should be removed from the article, and notice posted on the article's talk page about the concluded VfD that includes a link to the archived VfD discussion. This is also done for any action, like merge and redirect, that results in something being left at that article's title space. The template  can be used as a notice for articles kept intact.   can be used for articles that were redirected to another title, as well as merged articles, since the merge-from page is then made a redirect.

 * If the consensus was to delete, the article and its talk page will be deleted. It is a good idea to prefix the deletion log summary with  to indicate the deletion was a result of a community vote. (Speedy deletions are typically prefixed with  .)

 * If the result was to delete, but the deletion cannot be carried out for an extended period of time, the entry should be listed in the Pending deletion page of the deletion log. (This typically includes pages with considerable content that must be distributed to other pages or otherwise conserved elsewhere before final deletion.)

After recording the result, the admin should quickly copy the VfD discussion into a new page,, where "DISCUSSION TITLE" is the VfD discussion title, usually but not always the page name. (The page Useful links has a convenient input box that makes this creation easier.) This makes the discussion and decision available for review. Next, the archived VfD discussion should be listed in the appropriate month page (e.g., Votes for deletion/Log/2006 September) in the reverse order that they were nominated, so that the latest nominations are at the top. This is accomplished by adding the following text above the existing entries:

The resulting transclusion automatically displays the content of the archived discussion as if it were part of the month log page.

Closing and archiving admins should include edit summaries for their actions that make it easier to spot the actions in the VfD edit history, like  (for closure) and   (for archiving).

Wikipedia has more information on the general process (some of which is followed here) at Wikipedia:Deletion process.

Undeletion
Deleted pages can be restored, by administrators, if and only if there is support on Deletion review, or the page was speedily deleted out-of-process. If deletions are made too casually, Wikiquote may lose potentially useful text, and members of the community may feel that their work is not appreciated. Hence, the decision to permanently delete an article is not taken lightly, and the deletion process is followed. See Undeletion policy for guidance on undeletion.

If an article is repeatedly re-created by unassociated editors after being deleted, this should be seen as evidence for the need for an article. Administrators should always be responsible with the power that they have. If in doubt... don't delete!

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