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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.

— Richard Feynman, American Theoretical Physicist

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

— Gilles Deleuze, French Philosopher

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

— Thomas Edison, American Inventor

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

— Socrates, Classical Greek Philosopher 

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

— Ayn Rand, Russian-American Novelist

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind. 

— Ben Okri,  Nigerian Poet and Novelist

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Writer

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

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

— Rudolf Steiner, Austrian Philosopher

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

— Steve Allen, Actor
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