That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. Alan Watts Look at these cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. Unfortunately, that which is true is not new and that which is new is not true. One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1971. Richard F. Moore Scientists are peeping toms at the Keyhole of Eternity.