“Political language– and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists– is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell
 

 
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 

 
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”

— P. B. Medawar
 

 
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”

— John Cage
 

 
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

— Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi