I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. - Albert Einstein
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. - Carl Sagan
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another. - Plato
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens. - Anaxagoras
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
-Anaxagoras

“Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Der Ziellose erleidet sein Schicksal - der Zielbewusste gestaltet es.
-Immanuel Kant

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-Immanuel Kant

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.
No amount of Experimentation can ever prove me right. A single experiment can prove me wrong.
-Albert Einstein

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
-Archimedes

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
-Bertrand Russell

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the Universe.
-Galileo Galilei

Failure is not an option.
-Gene Kranz

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."
-Thomas Edison

Nature never breaks her own laws.
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge
-Leonardo da Vinci

"One man's 'Magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word."
-Robert Heinlein

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
-Max Planck

We see only what we know.
Goethe

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arthur C. Clarke