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An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.

— James Branch Cabell, American Author

Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

— Robert G. Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

— Carl Sagan, American Astronomer

It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher and Scientist

That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus, French Philosopher

People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

— Max Planck, German Theoretical Physicist
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