"A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment."

“Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”

“There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.”

“Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.”

“Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

“It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.”

“It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.”

“The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.”

“If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.”