Quotes

Science

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.  Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur  (French 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation,… Read More ›

Pen

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.   Michael Ondaatje   Philip Michael Ondaatje  (born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lanka-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist. Ondaatje’s literary career began with his poetry: in 1967 he… Read More ›

Hero

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.   Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis  was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is… Read More ›

Hang

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.   Aesop Aesop (620–564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables. Although his existence remains unclear… Read More ›