Caskets Quote by Francois Rabelais

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which…

— Charles Babbage

Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of…

— Michael Dirda

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice…

— Albert Einstein

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher…

— William James

“I have dedicated my life to the noble sciences of mathematics, astrology, physics, alchemy, and magic.”

— J.L. Burger

“A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more…

— Bertrand Russell

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they…

— Jacob Bronowski

Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use…

— Herbert J. Muller

“Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of art; still…

— Elie Wiesel

“It is therefore imperative that you identify your work as both personally interesting and, at the same time, integrally connected to the well-being of…

— Angela Duckworth

“Our job (as practitioners) is to settle under our own individual ego self needs and to allow ourselves to be guided by a mysterious…

— Cherionna Menzam-Sills