Great things begin in small ways

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

The energy produced by breaking down the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformations of these atoms is taking moonshine.
~ Ernest Rutherford

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.
~ William Shockley