01c. 2005 ADTrust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
02c. 2005 ADNo moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
04c. 2005 ADWhether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
05c. 2005 ADMan! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can’t improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
06c. 2005 ADThere are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
07c. 2005 ADAmicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
08c. 2005 ADHe who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
09c. 2005 ADThe sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
10c. 2005 ADMysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
11c. 2005 ADIt is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
12c. 2005 ADThe ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
13c. 2005 ADHistory of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
14c. 2005 ADWhat have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
15c. 2005 ADFor a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
16c. 2005 ADIt’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
17c. 2005 ADAll man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
18c. 2005 ADLet me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
19c. 2005 ADWhat is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
20c. 2005 ADMars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
21c. 2005 ADIf you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
22c. 2005 ADSome looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
23c. 2005 ADIf you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗
24c. 2005 ADFor those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path!Mehmet Murat ildan / quote ↗