"Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong."

“The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.”

“For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.”

“The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kevin Hart from Sep 21, 2012

“A similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.”

“If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.”

“If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?”

“A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, p.442, Harvard University Press

“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.”