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"Crystallographer Alan Mackay collected hundreds of quotations which are not limited to those expressed by scientists but also include those of people active in fields such as history, philosophy, politics, literature, etc. My favorite quotations are those whose length is less than a single line such as, for example, "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much" by Walter Lippmann (p. 155) or "Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves" by William Gilbert (p. 101). Interestingly, on page 160 Mackay reports four of his own quotations. Those interested in scientific quotations can complement this book with the Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2006)."

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• Crystallographer Alan Mackay collected hundreds of quotations which are not limited to those expressed by scientists but also include those of people active in fields such as history, philosophy, politics, literature, etc. My favorite quotations are those whose length is less than a single line such as, for example, "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much" by Walter Lippmann (p. 155) or "Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves" by William Gilbert (p. 101). Interestingly, on page 160 Mackay reports four of his own quotations. Those interested in scientific quotations can complement this book with the Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2006).
• Where can you begin when you have every scientific and economic pudding served up in one of those rare collections of wisdom that are so unexpected, and out of the ordinary. They are as timeless as the day they were minted.
  
  Imanuel Kant, saddled between the genius of Kapitsa, who made so many bright observations and lived most of his life in a Royal Russian shoebox, and James Joyce proclaiming Bloom's scientific bent. And Oppenheimer, the ultimate polymath speaking out on nothing you would have ever guessed.
  
  This book is endless in scope and depth. Every name you would hope to hear from is present, and at their best and most surprising. And you also have those you would not expect to see who have made some curiously interesting statements, Che Guevera, Nikita Khrushhev. This compilation is not for fans of Paul Anka or Sinatra. Mozart is briefly quoted because he had something, other than his music, worth preserving.
  
  This book quotes people of many different intellectual capacities and areas of expertise. There is a silken thread running through the writers that tackles and grabs contemporary America. Much of what is quoted is so surprising in subject matter, and is not what other learned souls are quoting these days. You will come to grips with today's problems when you read about the same subject on the front page of whatever bill of fare was offered to learned, literate people a thousand years ago.
  I offer this book with an unqualified recommendation.
  Respectfully submitted,
  Jerome Lawrence Castle
• This book is one of my favourite books, period. So much so that I keep it at arm's reach beside my dictionaries, but often pick it up to read just for enjoyment. I disagree with the title, because this volume spans everything to do with existence curiosity, discovery, disappointment, creativity, bureaucracy and government--what you could think would be carefully collected over a number of years by a person with a mind that hates to feel restricted. And this is exactly that. And if you think it's all highbrow stuff, prepare to be surprised. This isn't at all a collection of wisdoms. There is delicious fun here, too, sometimes at the expense of the quoted. As the foreward says, ". . . some quotations or aphorisms are so persuasive and so well put that one wishes one had said them oneself; others are wrong-headed...and others still tell us more about their authors than about their subjects Hilaire Belloc cannot have intended to make a public exhibition of himself..."
  
  There's even delightful poetry. A truly great book.