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

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.

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

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

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- Niels Bohr

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

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

-- Nicolaus Copernicus

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

-- Nikola Tesla