"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character." Einstein


"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor E. Frankl


"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." Carl Jung


"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." E. J. Dijkstra


"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." Carl Jung


"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain


"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" Einstein


"You shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free." John 8:32


"Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a mean only." Immanuel Kant


"As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations." Charles Darwin


"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Isaac Newton


"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so." Galileo Galilei


"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance." Socrates


"You are what your deep, driving desire is.

As your desire is, so is your will.

As your will is, so is your deed.

As your deed is, so is your destiny." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5


"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science." Einstein


"The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact." Kurt Godel


"What is done by what is called myself is, I feel, done by something greater than myself in me." Maxwell


"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Shakespeare, Hamlet


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