The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions but action.

Shannon L. Alder

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Robert Falcon Scott

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

Nicholas Hoult

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

John Lennon

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Winston Churchill

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Orson Scott Card

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Shirley Chisholm

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Derek Jarman

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran