John Stuart Mill

"A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can."

Ekaterina Hristova Spriggs

"Eliminate procrastination before procrastination eliminates you. :)"

Albert Einstein

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Werner Heisenberg

"The most difficult problem - concerning the use of the language arises in quantum theory. Here we have at first no simple guide for correlating the mathematical symbols with concepts of ordinary language: and the only thing we know from the start is the fact that our common concepts cannot be applied to the structure of the atoms."

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Thomas Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Max Planck

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with."

Niels Bohr

"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet."

"Albert, stop telling God what to do."

Norbert Wiener

"The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and a student of gravitational relativity theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday he is neither, but is praying to his God that someone, preferably himself, will find the reconciliation between the two views."

Richard Feynman

"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school . . . It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it . . . That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does."

Joe Darion

To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow,
To run where the brave dare not go.

To right the unrightable wrong,
To love pure and chaste from afar,
To try when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!

Rudolph Diesel, 1912

"The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in the course of time as important as the petroleum and coal tar products of the present time"

John Stuart Mill
	"A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can."
Ekaterina Hristova Spriggs
	"Eliminate procrastination before procrastination eliminates you. :)"
Albert Einstein
	"God does not play dice with the universe."
	"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
	"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
	"I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details."
	"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
	"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
	"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
	"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Werner Heisenberg
	"The most difficult problem - concerning the use of the language arises in quantum theory. Here we have at first no simple guide for correlating the mathematical symbols with concepts of ordinary language: and the only thing we know from the start is the fact that our common concepts cannot be applied to the structure of the atoms."
	"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
Isaac Newton
	"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Thomas Edison
	"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Max Planck
	"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with."
Niels Bohr
	"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet."
	"Albert, stop telling God what to do."
Norbert Wiener
	"The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and a student of gravitational relativity theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday he is neither, but is praying to his God that someone, preferably himself, will find the reconciliation between the two views."
Richard Feynman
	"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school . . . It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it . . . That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does."
Joe Darion
	To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare not go. To right the unrightable wrong, To love pure and chaste from afar, To try when your arms are too weary, To reach the unreachable star!
Rudolph Diesel, 1912
	"The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in the course of time as important as the petroleum and coal tar products of the present time"