The end of labor is to gain leisure.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus

Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.

James Jeans

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

Chuck Klosterman

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

Paul Nurse

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

Alexander McCall Smith

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Maggie Kuhn

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero