A writer's ambition should be 

to trade a hundred contemporary readers 

for ten readers in ten years' time 

and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars 

with an empty grin on his face.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The more original a discovery, 

the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process 

where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The prerequisite of originality 

is the art of forgetting, 

at the proper moment, 

what we know.

The principal mark of genius 

is not perfection 

but originality, 

the opening of new frontiers.

The progress of science is strewn, 

like an ancient desert trail, 

with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories 

which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process 

where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.