The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Every individual... neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Science knows no borders, but scientists have a homeland.

-- Born in 1854 in Takaoka, Japan, to a physician's family, Jokichi Takamine

Umami is not a complex taste. It is a simple one.

-- Born in Kyoto in 1864, Kikunae Ikeda

All the records I have set, I owe to my watch.

-- Paavo Nurmi

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

-- Charles Babbage

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.

-- Born around 1480 in Portugal