I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Tupac Shakur

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Bruce Catton

Those who live are those who fight.

Victor Hugo

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

The man, most man,Works best for men, and, if most men indeed,He gets his manhood plainest from his soul:While, obviously, this stringent soul itselfObeys our old rules of development;The Spirit ever witnessing in ours,And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul,Evolving it sublimely.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Daniel Defoe

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

Alexander Skarsgard

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Michael Shermer

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Michael Polanyi

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Wayne Dyer

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Rabbi Hillel