I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

In nature nothing exists alone.

-- Rachel Carson

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

-- Rachel Carson

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

-- Charles Darwin

The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them.

-- Ibn al-Haytham

The duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads.

-- Ibn al-Haytham

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

-- Grace Hopper