He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

Donald Johanson

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.

William Shakespeare

If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

Carl Sagan

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.

Alfred Hitchcock

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 have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Billy Graham

To fear death is to misunderstand life.

Source Unknown

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Jules Renard

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Edwidge Danticat

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Kent Conrad