"If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up! You will see no rules of composition, no evidence of superior technique. Yet, you will be staring into the very face of pure, unadulterated beauty and wonder. That is the unattainable Ideal for which I must constantly strive."

“A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.”

“People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.”

“Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.”

“Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2011). “Cod”, p.204, Random House

“One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street”, p.49, Everyman's Library

“Listen to and sing the music of heaven.”

“To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).”

Source : George E. P. Box, George C. Tiao (1985). “The collected works of George E.P. Box”, Chapman & Hall/CRC