Wiegerinck

“I have no hobby. As far as my activities beyond the bounds of my recognized profession are concerned, I take them all, without exception, very seriously. So much so, that I should be horrified by the idea that they had anything to do with hobbies—preoccupations in which I had become mindlessly infatuated in order to kill the time—had I not become hardened by experience to such examples of this now widespread, barbarous mentality.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry

“Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.”
― Leonard Susskind

“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.”
― John Locke

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
― Werner Heisenberg