"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down."
"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
Thomas H. Huxley
"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing
from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its
methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the
guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage
wields his club."