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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(" It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible. When this happens, the most well-informed men become blinded by their prejudices and are unable to see what lies directly ahead of them <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Arthur C. Clarke, 1963 ");}
else if (RandomNo < 100) {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 < 150) {document.write(" A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" G. Goebbels ");}
else if (RandomNo < 200) {document.write(" It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" R. Pirsig ");}
else if (RandomNo < 250) {document.write(" Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Frank Zappa ");}
else if (RandomNo < 300) {document.write(" If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Don Marquis ");}
else if (RandomNo < 350) {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 < 400) {document.write(" It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" R. Pirsig ");}
else if (RandomNo < 450) {document.write(" It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" H. Poincare ");}
else if (RandomNo < 500) {document.write(" Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Michael Faraday ");}
else if (RandomNo < 550) {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 < 600) {document.write(" The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Stephen Jay Gould ");}
else if (RandomNo < 650) {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 ");}
else if (RandomNo < 700) {document.write(" All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Arthur Schopenhauer ");}
else if (RandomNo < 750) {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 < 800) {document.write(" Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Carl Sagan ");}
else if (RandomNo < 850) {document.write(" Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Carl Sagan ");}
else if (RandomNo < 900) {document.write(" One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike, and yet it is the most precious thing we have <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Einstein ");}
else if (RandomNo < 950) {document.write(" One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike, and yet it is the most precious thing we have <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Einstein ");}
else                     {document.write(" The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit <br><hr width=75%>");
document.write(" Dr. B. Lown, invented defibrillator ");}
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