Samuel Johnson

 "All knowledge is of itself of some value. 

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I 

would not rather know it than not."
Samuel Johnson

Stanley Kubrick

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, 

and the small nations like prostitutes."
Stanley Kubrick

P. Benchley

"You don't have to swim faster than the shark, 

just faster than the guy next to you."
P. Benchley

Arthur Schopenhauer

"All truth passes through three stages. 

First, it is ridiculed. 

Second, it is violently opposed. 

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer

Ludwig Wittgenstein

 “I don’t know why we are here. But, I’m pretty 

sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Louis Daguerre

"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight."
Louis Daguerre

Oscar Wilde

 "I am so clever that sometimes I don't 

understand a single word of what I am saying."
 Oscar Wilde

Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; 

and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln

Sir William Herschel

"The undevout astronomer must be mad."

Sir William Herschel

Vladimir Zworykin

 "I hate what they've done to my child...

I would never let my own children watch it."
[On his feelings about watching television.]

Vladimir Zworykin

Aristotle

"No great genius has ever existed 

without a strain of madness."
Aristotle

Carl Sagan

"We are star stuff contemplating star stuff."
Carl Sagan

Terry Pratchett

"Multiple exclamation marks are a 
sure sign of a diseased mind."
Terry Pratchett

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

"I did not think I investigated...It seemed at first 

a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly

something new something unrecorded...There is 

much to do, and I am busy, very busy"
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
(First observer of X-rays made on 8 Nov 1895)

Robert Anton Wilson

"If you think you know what the hell is going on, 

you're probably full of shit."
Robert Anton Wilson

Ashleigh Brilliant

"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
Ashleigh Brilliant

Bobcat Goldthwait

"If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me instead."
Bobcat Goldthwait

George Bernard Shaw

"The power of accurate observation is commonly 

called cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw