You live and learn. Or you don't live long. - Robert A. Heinlein

There is no subject inappropriate for scientific research. Johann, we’ve let you fellows have a monopoly of such matters for too long. The most serious questions in the world have been left to faith or speculation. It is time for scientists to cope with them, or admit that science is no more than pebble counting.

“Die trying” is the proudest human thing.

Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand.