“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
 

 
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.”

— Ellen DeGeneres