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document.write("<font face=arial,helvetica size=-1 color=#FF0000><b>Famous Quotes</b></font>");
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if      (RandomNo < 50)  {document.write(" When a thing is new, people say: 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: 'Anyway, it is not new. <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" William James, 1896 ");}
else if (RandomNo < 100) {document.write(" The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Sir William Osler ");}
else if (RandomNo < 150) {document.write(" Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Ralph Waldo Emerson ");}
else if (RandomNo < 200) {document.write(" Wisest is she who knows she does not know <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Anon ");}
else if (RandomNo < 250) {document.write(" I can't see any farther. Giants are standing on my shoulders <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" unknown ");}
else if (RandomNo < 300) {document.write(" Science is the search for truth, it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Linus Pauling ");}
else if (RandomNo < 350) {document.write(" I love fools' experiments, I am always making them <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Charles Darwin ");}
else if (RandomNo < 400) {document.write(" When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" A. Einstein ");}
else if (RandomNo < 450) {document.write(" When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it. Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" W. I. B Beveridge, The Art of Sci. Investigation, 1950 ");}
else if (RandomNo < 500) {document.write(" Now, my suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, in any philosophy <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" J.B.S. Haldane ");}
else if (RandomNo < 550) {document.write(" I ask you, which is the greater threat to science and mankind, accepting a claim that can have no possible benefit, or rejecting a claim that can have great benefit <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Dr. Edmund Storms ");}
else if (RandomNo < 600) {document.write(" On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Lewis Thomas ");}
else if (RandomNo < 650) {document.write(" There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance, that principle is contempt prior to investigation <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Herbert Spencer, British philosopher ");}
else if (RandomNo < 700) {document.write(" In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Whitehead ");}
else if (RandomNo < 750) {document.write(" What we need is not the will to believe but the will to find out <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Bertrand Russell ");}
else if (RandomNo < 800) {document.write(" New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them? <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" H. G. Wells ");}
else if (RandomNo < 850) {document.write(" All great truths begin as blasphemies <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" George Bernard Shaw ");}
else if (RandomNo < 900) {document.write(" The love of the marvellous is the most dangerous enemy of natural science <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Minerologist Eugene de Patrin, said in 1802 while dismissing reports of meteorites. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 950) {document.write(" There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" L. Hogben ");}
else                     {document.write(" The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Bertrand Russell ");}
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