“My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.”
Michael Franti (1966) American rapper
Michael Franti Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s75CPceiCw&feature=related
“My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.”
Skeptical of Von Helsing's story of vampires
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
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“I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.”
J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer
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“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“It’s amazing what superstitions survive in fearful minds.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 10, “Werteswandel” (p. 462)
Patrick Warburton (1964) American actor
"A chat with Patrick Warburton" at Bullz-Eye.com (23 Februarty 2009) http://www.bullz-eye.com/television/interviews/2009/patrick_warburton.htm <br class="br">Context: The Tick comes to mind. … that was just my favorite thing ever, and it was so smart and clever, and I loved it. I felt honored to get to step into the shoes of the Tick, and it just didn’t get love…not from the network, you know. The network killed it. It’s had a pretty fantastic after life on DVD, but it could have been a great series if they decided they wanted to spend any money at all back at the time. It became all about reality TV for them. They discovered they could spend very little money and get huge numbers.
“Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
C'est une des superstitions de l'esprit humain d'avoir imaginé que la virginité pouvait être une vertu.
Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750)
This quotation and the three that follow directly below are from the so-called Leningrad Notebook, also known as Le Sottisier; it is one of several posthumously published notebooks of Voltaire.
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Paul Erdős (1913–1996) Hungarian mathematician and freelancer
My Brain Is Open : The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (1998) by Bruce Schechter, p. 99
