| I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. — Oscar Widle |
| Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
— Voltaire |
| The only thing that keeps us alive is our brilliance, the only thing that protects our brilliance is our patents.
— Edward Land |
| Excuse me while I Boogaloo. — James Brown |
| You can observe a lot while watching. — Yogi Berra |
| Major advances in science occur not because the proponents of the established views are forced by the weight of evidence to change their minds, but because they retire and eventually die.
— Planck’s Dictum |
| We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
— Oscar Wilde |
| Great creativity requires hard facts, wild imagination and nonlogial jumps forward that are then proved to be right by working backwards to known principles. Only the rebellious can do it. — Lorraine Daston |
| Luck is the residue of design — Branch Ricky |
| IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE — Big Al Einstein |
| It’s good to be open-minded, but if your too open-minded, your brains fall out.
— Old Yiddish saying |
| Experience is not what happens to you.
Experience is what you do with what happens to you.
— Aldous Huxley |
| An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field — Neils Bohr |
| The only person who makes no mistakes is the one who never does anything.
— Teddy Roosevelt |
| Frango ut patefaciam
I break in order to reveal
— Motto Paleontological Society |
| New things are not trusted unless proven by experience.
— Nicoli Machiavelli |
| Man climbs mountains because it is there.
Man invents something because it is not there.
— Brett Stern |
| The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget about old ideas — John Maynard Keynes |
| I don't think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It over comes everything, even nature. — John D. Rockefeller |
| The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
— Henry Thoreau |