Carl Sagan

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

- Carl Sagan, scientist and author

Carl Sagan

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

- Carl Sagan, scientist and author

Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, lawyer

Albert Einstein

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Francis Bacon

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, lawyer

Albert Einstein

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Paracelsus

"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth."

- Paracelsus, physician, botanist, alchemist, astronomer

Albert Einstein

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Albert von Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

- Albert von Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, scientist

Albert Einstein

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

John Lilly

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."

- John Lilly, physician, scientist, philosopher, writer

Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Francis Bacon

"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, lawyer

Albert Einstein

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Francis Bacon

"By far the best proof is experience."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, lawyer

Francis Bacon

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, author

Francis Bacon

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, author

C. P. Snow

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."

- C. P. Snow, author and scientist

René Descartes

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

- René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician, writer

Albert Einstein

"The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

- Albert Einstein, physicist