Xeniya Rudolf

“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson