“ Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal. Willis R. Whitney Chemist
“ The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience John Timbs Author
“ If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov Author
“ Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Percival Lowell Author
“ Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero Philosopher
“ There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. Leonardo Da Vinci Painter