Maria

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved”
― Thucydides

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“O world, why do you wish to persecute me? How do I offend you, when I intend only to fix beauty in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on beauty?

I do not set store by treasures or riches; & therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riches in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on riches.

I do not set store by a lovely face that, vanquished, is civil plunder of the ages, & perfidious wealth has never pleased me,

for I deem it best, as one of my truths, to deplete the vanities of this life & never this life to deplete in vanities.”
― Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings