If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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 sea-shore, 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.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.

-- Warren Buffett

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

-- Albert Einstein

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up familiar with it.

-- Max Planck

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

-- Max Planck

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

-- Niels Bohr

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

-- Stephen Hawking