"Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party."

“Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.”

“True love will never fade like a rainbow.”

“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”

“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”

“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.”

Source : 1267 OpusMajus, pt.4, ch.1 (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

“Don't think OF the market. Think AS the market.”

“I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.”

“Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.”