"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."

Stephen Hawking

'Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"

Winston Churchill

"...man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."

Peter Atkins

"Everything is driven by motiveless, purposeless decay"

Jerome K. Jerome

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."

Al Gore

"The planet is in distress, and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton. We have to ask ourselves, What is going on here?"

Arthur C. Clarke

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion."

Senaca

" Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement"

Max Babi

"Shakespeare written in Arial sounds like a police complaint!"

Woody Allen

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in 20 minutes. It involves Russia."

Lewis Wolpert

"It is not birth, marriage or death which is the most important time in your life, but gastrulation."

AnoNick

"She was going mad, off on a tangent into the infinite wilderness."

P.G. Wodehouse

"And that's another thing. If this Gertrude Winkworth and I should, by some remote chance hit it off, we'd be known by all and sundry as Bertie and Gertie. Like some dashed musical act."

P.G. Wodehouse

"From his earliest years there has always been something distinctive and individual about Gussie's timbre, reminding the hearer partly of an escape from a gas pipe and partly of a sheep calling to its young in the lambing season."

James Watson

"There are only molecules— everything else is sociology"

Charles Dickens

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

Ben Okri

"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."

Niels Bohr

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."

Fernando Alonso

"We have a new toy"

Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Enrico Fermi

“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.”

AnoNick

"The introvert has an obsession with contemplation;
Extrovert, whereas has a fixation with communication."

Carl Sagan

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Jacques Monad

"What is true of E.coli is true of the elephant"

Richard Feynman

"A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality should be like."

Shakespeare

"Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears."

James Bryce

"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence."

Sherlock Holmes

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."

Bertrand Russell

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "

Isaac Asimov

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

Stephen Hawking

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special"