"Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic."

“The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.”

“Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.”

“As to the black dwarfs, they wouldn't allow anyone to look into them, because what is inside them is truly horrible. That is why they want everything on Earth to be as black and dark as they are themselves.”

Source : "The Three Candles of Little Veronica: The Story of a Child’s Soul in this World and the Other". Book by Manfred Kyber, 1975.

“Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.”

“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”

“Be true to yourself. Never compromise.”

“It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.”

Source : Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin

“We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.”

Source : "Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.