Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth

Bierce, Ambrose

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization

The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles

Churchill, Winston S.
...man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on

Einstein, Albert
(Written in old age) I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.

Frisch, Max

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes

Kaku, Michio

of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory

the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct