Autodidact

“They scolded us for not having any real hopes or real ambitions, but if we were to pursue our true ideals, would these people watch and guide us along the way?”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“Devlet adamı olarak hiçbir zaman aklımızdan çıkaramayız ki, hilafet orduları bu ülkeyi baştan başa harabeye çevirmişlerdir. Hilafet orduları kurulması olasılığını hiçbir zaman gözden uzak tutmayacağız... Türk ulusu en acıklı sıkıntılarını halife ordusundan çekmiştir. Bir daha çekmeyecektir."
"Bir hilafet fetvasının Dünya Savaşı belasına bizi attığını hiçbir zaman unutmayacağız. Bir hilafet fetvasının, ulus ayağa kalkmak istediği zaman, ona düşmanlardan daha kötü bir şekilde saldırdığını unutmayacağız."
"Tarihin herhangi bir döneminde, bir halife, aklından bu ülkenin mukadderatına karışmak isteğini geçirirse, o kafayı mutlaka koparacağız!”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk

“The mental features discoursed of as the
analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate
them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are
always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest
enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such
exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral
activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial
occupations bringing his talents into play. He is fond of enigmas, of
conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of
acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. His results,
brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole
air of intuition.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“Artists are far away from an understanding of science. My idea was that artists don’t understand the underlying generality and beauty of nature and her laws (and therefore cannot portray this in their art). They don’t understand the technical world they live in; they don't know anything about the beauty of the real world — the scientific world”
― Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"