In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

Vince Cable

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Jeremy Renner

Many aspire to change the world but few realize that everyone accomplishes that goal. Each day you live you are changing something. Rather than simply changing the world, one should aspire to make a positive change with each action they commit.

Anon., anonymous: submitted to Q

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman

Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.

Gerhard Kocher

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

Omar Bongo

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Albert Pike

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Charlie McCarthy