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

In search of Truth

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

~ George Washington

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

~ Anaïs Nin

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

~ Galileo Galilei

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

~ Boris Pasternak