Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Penelope Fitzgerald

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Friedrich von Schiller

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

Philip Warren Anderson

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

Robert Moog

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Martin Scorsese

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Cyril Connolly

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

Carl Sagan

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan Macy