"Inactivity is the beginning of all vice."

“What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.”

“Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.”

“Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.9

“I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.”

“A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets”

“But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning snarl and bristling mane were anything but playful. That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time. He loved with single heart and refused to cheapen himself or his love.”

“The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.”

“And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.”