“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
-– Oscar Wilde
“Be creative. Step courageously through the barrier of awkwardness that comes when you’re a beginner, and awaken the brilliant child inside you that yearns to learn.”
— William DeFoore
“Real gentleness in a person is a great power. The power that sees, understands, but never interferes. Like the branch of the tree, just touching the earth but never taking root in it. Never to take root in someone else’s mind but to help, that’s gentleness.”
— Unknown
“Generosity can be defined in many ways but respect, kindness, benefit and accessibility are its key characteristics.”
— Unknown
“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Don’t get consumed with consuming. Consumption never leads to happiness. True happiness comes not from what we GET but from what we GIVE.”
— Jon Gordon
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
-— Marie Curie
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
— Carl Sagan
“The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment…not authority.”
— Thomas Huxley
“What is a scientist after all?It is a curious man looking through a keyhole,the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
“The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.”
— Irving Langmuir
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;the point is to discover them.”
— Galileo Galilei
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
— Isaac Asimov