Wiegerinck

“As long as we keep our native language on our tongue, we will penetrate so much more deeply the distinctiveness of each language. Here we will find gaps, there superfluity; here riches, there a desert, and we will be able to enrich the poverty of the one with the treasures of the other. For, in what precise relationship do language and mentality stand? Whoever masters the entire scope of one language surveys a field full of thoughts, and whoever learns to express himself precisely in it thereby gathers for himself a treasure of clear concepts. The first words we stammer are the foundation stones of our knowing, and our nurse-maids are our first teachers of logic.”
― Johann Gottfried Herder

“It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances.”
― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence

“Het gaat slecht, verder gaat het goed.”
― Gerard Reve, De avonden

“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