And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Joseph Rotblat

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Harry A. Overstreet

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

We have met with so overwhelming an affliction in the death of our beloved Willie, a being too precious for this earth. All that human skill could do, was done for our sainted boy. I fully believe the severe illness [scarlet fever], he passed through, now, almost two years since, was but a warning to us, that one so pure, was not to remain long here and at the same time, he was lent us a little longer to try us and wean us from a world whose chains were fastening around us; and when the blow came it found us so unprepared to meet it. …He has fulfilled his mission and we are left desolate. When I think over his short but happy childhood, how much comfort, he always was to me, and how fearfully I always found my hopes concentrating on so good a boy as he was - when I can bring myself to realize that he has indeed passed away, my question to myself is, ‘can life be endured?’.

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln, From lett

Simplicity is the seal of truth.

Proverb

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

Ruggiero Ricci

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Robert Alexander Schumann

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Henry David Thoreau

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Henry Ward Beecher