Carol Reed

You could gather a large number of people together to gaze at a two-headed dog, especially if you had a man with a loud enough voice announcing it; but the number of times people can be induced to pay money to see the dog is strictly limited; the wise showman provides also a bearded lady and a living skeleton... Carol Reed

Arthur C. Clarke

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke

H.P. Lovecraft

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
H.P. Lovecraft

John Nash

One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
John Nash

René Magritte

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
René Magritte

Nikola Tesla

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think
deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla

Isaac Asimov

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov