“The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.” Sean Carroll

“Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.” Jacob Bronowski

“Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.” Sir Ken Robinson

We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn’t mean that your decisions will be perfect. They’ll be far more accurate than just opinions. Jacque Fresco

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It is the birthright of every child to encounter the cosmos anew, in every culture and every age. When this happens to us, we experience a deep sense of wonder. The most fortunate among us are guided by teachers who channel this exhilaration. We are born to delight in the world. We are taught to distinguish our preconceptions from the truth. Then, new worlds are discovered as we decipher the mysteries of the cosmos.” Carl Sagan

“The evolution of complex life, its very existence in a universe obeying physical laws is wonderfully surprising, or would be, up for the fact that surprise is an emotion that can exist only in a brain which is the product of that very surprising process. Our existence is desperately surprising. Natural selection produces living organisms which are entities of gigantic but not infinite probability. On one planet, and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules which would normally would made nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, have some how manage to gather them selves together into chunks of rock size matter, capable in some cases of thinking and feeling and falling in love yet other chunks of complex matter. What we see of the real world, in a sense is not the unvarnished real world, but a model of the real world regulated and adjusted by sense data, but constructed so is useful for dealing with real world. The nature of the model in our head depends of the kind of animal we are.” Richard Dawkins