leonardo da vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather beco
mes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat
back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to retu
rn.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

galilio
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to disc
over them.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense
, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble rea
soning of a single individual.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can sti
ll ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
issac newton
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of gian
ts.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusi
on of things.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that
are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understand
ing.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed fr
om the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient
attention, than to any other talent.
alber einsten
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for

existing.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure abou
t the universe.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
with which we created them.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source o
f all true art and science.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
edison
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to su
ccess when they gave up.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound our
selves.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is alwa
ys to try just one more time.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's us
eless.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
tesla
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequ
ency and vibration.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progre
ss in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they s
eparate, man is no more.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to thi
nk clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married
men.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next
a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

g.h. hardy
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly math
ematics.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patter
ns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition,
there are already enough people to do that.

apj abdul kalam

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and cons
pires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest
or to the top of your career.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear
has no place. Only strength respects strength.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity,
entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted succe
ss that breeds bitterness all around.
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential
strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
The sides of the mountain sustain life, not the peak. This is where things grow,
experience is gained, and technologies are mastered. The importance of the peak
lies only in the fact that it defines the sides.

mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway crossing, but it is your duty
to keep it so clean that no other crossing in the world is as clean as yours.
Success in any profession or trade is due largely to the capacity individuality,
integrity, Foresight, hard work of the person who undertakes it and it depends o
n man s own exertions.
No one person can shape the life of another. Your success and happiness depends u
pon your own self. Think for yourself and have a plan of life.
One of the main objects of education is to train the recipient for the battle of
life. The greatest drawback in education is the omission to give practical train
ing in the use of
machine tools needed for Industrialization.
Remember the race is for the skilled and the strong, we cannot hope to succeed if
we continue to work with antiquated tools and follow old fashion business metho
ds.
To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured w
ith money 1
To make our country great, self-supporting and strong, work hard, work harder wor
k with efficiency, work in a co-operative spirit and work with a team spirit.
madam cuie
"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.""Nothing in life is to be fe
ared; it is only to be understood."
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than e
vil from new discoveries.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confr
onting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establish
ing the truth.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of
the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile
family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.