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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo, French Poet

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

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

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

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

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher and Scientist

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

— Richard Feynman, American Theoretical Physicist

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

— Rudolf Steiner, Austrian Philosopher

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

— Annie Besant, British Theosophist

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

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

— Douglas Adams, English Author
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