“Each time a man stands up for an ideal… He sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
–Robert Kennedy
“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of them without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”
-Max Planck
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Begin — to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
–Decimus Magnus Ausonius
