A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Norman Douglas

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

Max Perutz

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

Joe Roman

I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.

Bear Grylls

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

Tony Hale

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

John Green

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nevell Bovee

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

John Green

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

Benazir Bhutto

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche