"Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us."

“There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.”

“You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.”

“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.”

Source : "The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630". Book by Marie Boas Hall, p. 117, April 2, 2013.

“When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.”

“Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.”

“One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.”

“All currency is neurotic currency.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.271, Wesleyan University Press

“Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.”