Style is self-plagiarism.

Alfred Hitchcock

I hear and I forget. I see and I remembers. I do and I understand.

Chinese Proverb

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
U.S. Scientist

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986)
Hungarian-American Biochemist

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

He who gazes at the stars unavoidably starts thinking.

Gerhard Staguhn (B. 1952)
U.S. Physicist

For the seeds and universal elements of the world are so interlaced in sundry ways, and mingled one within another....

Pliny the Elder (23-70 A.D.)
Roman Naturalist

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
U.S. Anthropologist

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
U.S. Anthropologist

An act of imagination, a speculative adventure...underlies every improvement of natural knowledge.

Sir Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987)
British Zoologist

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.... He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead....

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Swiss-American Physicist

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)
U.S. Physicist

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
French Physiologist

Life as a whole is a ceaseless change.... There is no sign of a physical limit yet.

Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967)
U.S. Scientist

The problem when solved will be simple.

Charles Franklin Kettering 1876-1958)
U.S. Inventor

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
Dutch Microbiologist

I suspect it is the involuntary faculty of thought that gives rise to what we call "a flash of intuition," something that I imagine must be merely the result of unnoticed thinking.

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
U.S. Biochemist

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Alva Edison

I listen from within.

Thomas Alva Edison

Invention breeds invention.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Alva Edison

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson