“ You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate. Abbott L. Lowell
“ You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done. Abbott L. Lowell
“ You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors. Abbott L. Lowell
“ All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. Abbott L. Lowell
“ The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory. Alfred North Whitehead Mathematician
“ Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. Aristotle Philosopher
“ Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough. Chai Lu