"personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good
behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer
it is not much of a step up but i am humble"
— Don Marquis (ghosts)

"The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem."
— Albert Einstein

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
— Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

"The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile."
— Hans Selye

"Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God."
— Maria Mitchell

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to
do, that makes life blessed."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate
into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The shortest path between any two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain."
— J. Hadamand

"The object of pure Physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence."
— J.J. Sylvester

"The elevation of ends and the simplification of means is the goal."
— Henry David Thoreau

"What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"
— Aldo Leopold

"I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness."
— Aldo Leopold

"For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance."
— Franz Kafka

"When I try to imagine a faultless love
Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur
Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape."
— W.H. Auden

"Of what use are extreme faces? It is within that we find the most insurmountable barriers. We shall not find the seventh grade beyond the sixth, but in ourselves."
— Ivan Ghirardini

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
— T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph)

"The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon."
— Franz Kafka

"We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
deeper meanings."
— Allen Steck

"Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.'"
— Aeschylus

"Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations...."
— Mark Twain

"Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice. Abide in peace in the presence of God Who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and Who permits them. Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were naught."
— François Fénelon

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
— T.S. Eliot

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
— Galileo Galilei

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
— Niels Bohr

"“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but
when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is
wrong.”
"
— Richard Buckminster Fuller

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
— John von Neumann

"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world."
— Karl Barth