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“You cannot see what you don’t look for, and you cannot look for what you don’t believe in.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love death - not morbidly, but because He explains. He shows me the emptiness of Money. Death and Money are the eternal foes. Not Death and Life. . . . Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. Behind the coffins and the skeletons that stay the vulgar mind lies something so immense that all that is great in us responds to it. Men of the world may recoil from the charnel-house that they will one day enter, but Love knows better. Death is his foe, but his peer, and in their age-long struggle the thews of Love have been strengthened, and his vision cleared, until there is no one who can stand against him.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.”
― Sidney Brenner

“The big lesson to learn here is that in science, only mathematics is the art of the perfect. Physics is the art of the optimal, and biology is the art of the satisfactory: if it works, you keep it; if it doesn't, you get rid of it.”
― Sydney Brenner

“Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself”
― Plato

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
― Goethe, Schiller, Hebel, et al