'Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.'

'True creativity often starts where language ends.'

'Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five' (cf Orwell, in 1984)

'The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.'

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.