Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Imre Lakatos

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

William Frederick Book

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Nelly

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

James Gunn

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Dave Grohl

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

Gustave Flaubert

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Rabindranath Tagore

He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Isaac Asimov

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

Never complain. Never explain.

Henry Ford