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True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn (1644-1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, statesman
No Cross, No Crown (1682)
Written while a prisoner in the Tower of London (1668-69).

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American physicist
(Attributed)

Many variations can be found for this quotation (none of them with citation):

• "Science is like sex, it has its practical purposes, but that's not why we do it."
• "Science is like sex. Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not why we are doing it."
• "Science is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

Lawrence J. Peter (1919-1990) American educator, management theorist
Peter’s Quotations (1977)

JULIET: If you need me, just call. You know how to dial, don’t you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles.

Steve Martin (b. 1945) American comedian
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982) [with Carl Reiner, George Gipe]

Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet’s lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
The Principles of Psychology, ch. 1 “The Scope of Psychology” (1890)
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