“Entropy is the price of structure.” - Ilya Prigogine

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment." - Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was." _ Theodore Von Karman

"The field of science is large; it is, therefore, impossible for any individual to cultivate the whole." - John Dalton

"Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention."

"Power is the by-product of understanding." - Jacob Bronowski

"Certainty ends inquiry." - Jacob Bronowski

"Societies that empower women are less violent in every way."

"Science is the poetry of reality."

"I did not think; I experimented."

"The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy, or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the

“What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.” ― Euclid

"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."

“Energy is eternal delight” - William Blake

"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Lionardo Da Vinci

"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime." - Jacob Bronowski

"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Jacob Bronowski

"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point." - Steven Pinker

"Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance."

“Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.”

"Human thought must be supported by experiment; if it is not, it will distance itself from the truth farther than the Sun is from Earth" - Otto von Guericke

“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal conte

"The Second Law of Thermodynamics defines the ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order. An underappreciation of the inherent tendency toward disorder, and a failure to appreciate t

"None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison

"Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science." - Jacob Bronowski

"A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before." - Jacob Bronowski

“There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late” ― Charles Bukowski

"We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one." - Steven Pinker

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."