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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
• Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. -- Bertrand Russell
• Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
• Remember, there's more to life than science fiction, but not much
• Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties.
  The rare scholars who are nomads-by- choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines....
• Very little life in a lifetime. -- Emerson.
• It is a special trick of low cunning to squeeze out knowledge from a modest man, who is eminent in any science, and then to use it as legally acquired, and pass the source in total silence.
  -- Horace Walpole...
• Van Roy's Law: Honesty is the best policy - there's less competition.
  Van Roy's Truism: Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control....