"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."

“Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.”

“The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.”

“I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.”

“Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile”

“All great art is a visual form of prayer.”

“Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.”

Source : Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work...”

Source : Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.348, Columbia University Press

“Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment.”