"Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength."

“I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.”

“To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.”

Source : "The stimulus of science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2009.

“I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.”

“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”

“Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions.”

“Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.”

Source : "The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995". Book by Martin Gardner (Introduction to Part III "Pseudoscience", p. 171), 1996.

“A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.245

“A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.”