"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion."
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
"If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
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Today's political cartoons - March 30, 2025Cartoons Sunday's cartoons - strawberry fields forever, secret files, and more
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5 hilariously sparse cartoons about further DOGE cutsCartoons Artists take on free audits, report cards, and more
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Following the Tea Horse Road in ChinaThe Week Recommends This network of roads and trails served as vital trading routes
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin: the new space race?Speed Read Branson has declared space open for business. Is that still a pie in the sky?
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Russia and China joining forces to build first Moon baseSpeed Read Lunar pact represents ‘all kinds of security threats’ to UK and US, expert warns
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Mystery of where Stonehenge stones came from finally solvedSpeed Read But how the builders moved the huge stone megaliths to the Salisbury site remains a mystery
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How chimpanzee ‘lip smacking’ can unlock mystery behind human speechSpeed Read New study reveals rhythm of great apes’ communications is identical to spoken language
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Scientists discover new variety of black holeSpeed Read Astronomers had previously missed entire class of dead star
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Trio win Nobel physics prize for work to understand cosmosSpeed Read The scientists were hailed for ‘ground-breaking’ discoveries
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Quadriplegic man walks using mind-reading robotic exoskeletonSpeed Read Robo-suit hailed as huge step forward for paralysed patients
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Will ancient scrolls damaged by Vesuvius be read again?Speed Read Scientists believe they have developed technology to see what is on the famous scrolls
