Julian Jawad Ahmad

“In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes.

{Advising his student, Max Planck, whom he advised in 1878, not to go into physics, at at the University of Munich}”
― Philipp von Jolly

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The shortest distance between two people is a story.”
― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius