"It is like trying to find a black bird at night, in a country that does not have many black birds."

 -- Albert Einstein

              - when asked about the likelyhood of  

                 extracting power from atoms.

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty.... but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

 -- Buckminster Fuller

"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view."

-- Max Planck

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

-- Carl Sagan

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

-- Socrates

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."

-- Aristotle

"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."

-- Erwin Schrodinger

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

--Oscar Wilde