In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;

Sir Philip Sidney

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

Jodi Picoult

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Henry Petroski

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Chris Rock

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Michael J. Fox

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Thomas Jefferson

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Alexander Maclaren

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Elie Wiesel

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

Richard Dawkins