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“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.”
― Melissa Marr

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“আমাদের গাঁয়ে�� অধিকাং�� লো�� গোলা�� দেখে নি, ঘ্রা�� চায় নি গোলাপের। তারা দেখে নি কোনো চো��-ঝলসানো না��, কোনো দি�� দেখা�� স্বপ্ন�� দেখে নি�� কবিত�� পড়ে নি তারা, কোনোদি�� পড়া�� কথ�� ভাবে নি�� কখনো তাদে�� বু�� থেকে চোখে�� জলের মত�� দীর্ঘশ্বাস বেরিয়�� আস�� নি ��-কথ�� ভেবে যে ��-জীবন�� তাদেরও একটি কবিত�� পড়া হল�� না�� কে�� রাজা ��'তে চায় নি তারা�� জরির পোশা�� ��'রে গোঁফ রেখে ধারালো তলোয়া�� হাতে ��'রে ফিরত�� চায় নি কে�� তারা�� তারা চেয়েছ�� ভাত। স্বপ্ন দেখেছে মধুর মত��, তারা�� মত��, চাঁদের মত��, কড়িফুলে�� মত�� ভাতে�� আর ভাতে�� আর ভাতের। জেগে উঠ�� দেখেছে সামন�� ��'ড়�� আছ�� শূন্�� মাটি�� বাসন��”
― হুমায়ুন আজাদ, ফুলে�� গন্ধ�� ঘু�� আস�� না