"The credit of advancing science has always..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.”

“For to give is the business of the rich.[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]”

“Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.”

“The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."”

“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”

“A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”

“Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.”

“At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.”

“Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.”