I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Herman Melville

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Juvenal

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

Sam Keen

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Terry Pratchett

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

Rosalind Wiseman

My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

Jackie Jackson

My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

Andrei Sakharov

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Neil Armstrong

Swiftness is the enemy of comprehension.

Felix Alba-Juez

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

George Bernard Shaw

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France