I start where the last man left off.
— Thomas Edison

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
–William Shakespeare

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
–Albert Einstein

“Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people then the right to life itself then the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.”
— Roger Casement

“Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.”
— George Washington (speaking of Ireland’s support for America during the American revolution)

“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
― Richard Feynman

“I… a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
― Richard Feynman

“He has the most who is most content with the least.”

— Diogenes

“I have traveled far, and I have observed that poor people usually have more wit and more virtue than rich ones.” He smiled at that. “You are kind. But our people have so much wit and virtue now that they may die. We have never possessed great numbers, and many perished in the winter just past, when much water froze.”

– from Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of ‘The Book of the New Sun’ by Gene Wolfe

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
– Marshall Mcluhan