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They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.                          
                                                                      Old Testament, Hosea 8:7

This book is for my father Allan Tonkin, who, by his example, taught me the distinction between price and value.

Stephen Tonkin

A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Nature reserves her treasures for those who walk quietly.

Howard Snyder

Science gives legitimacy and worth to exploration.

Robert Ballard

You cannot use statistics on a sample of one.

Dan Rather

The primary rule of intellectual life: When puzzled it never hurts to read the primary documents.

Stephen Jay Gould Nat. Hist. Mag. March 1997

The idea of science as a method rather than as a body of knowledge is not widely appreciated outside of science, or indeed in some corridors inside of science.

Carl Sagan

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, when a new planet swims into his ken.

Keats

The aperture of the telescope is not the only thing to be taken into account. There is also the man at the small end.

W.H. Stevanson

A civilization declares itself by its books. A house without books is a shelter, but not a home.

London Times

Public relations they called it in America, the multi-billion dollar industry that could make a talentless oaf a celebrity, a fool a sage and a base opportunist a statesman.

S.F. Perera Daily Mirror, 20 April 2006/9 (opinion)

Celebrity is the route to nowhere. After you become one, it is never enough.

Ewan McGregor Hello Magazine, No. 1188, 22^nd August 2011 (page 48)

Truth learned from others is of no value, the only truth which is effective and of value is self-discovered. ..... The teacher can only guide to the point of discovery.

Jay Gluck Zen Combat

The love of learning and the love of money seldom ever meet.

Montaigne

Each time that a new and surprising fact is revealed by science, people say at first that “It is not true”, then that it “Disagrees with religion” and finally that “Everyone has always known it”.

Louis Agassiz

I try to learn from the mistakes of others. Life is too short for me to make them myself.

Groucho Marx

Honour dies where interest lies.

Anon.

Politics is an act of the probable, which is why only second rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke in 3001

Only small minds are impressed with mere size and numbers

Ibid.

"Mens sana in corpora sano" [A healthy mind in a healthy body].

Ancient Greek saying

There’s always free cheese in a mousetrap.

Navjot Sidhu

“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” [I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts].

Virgil

Everything has its price, especially if it’s free.

Ritchie Richardson

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Old saying

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Mark Twain

Trust in god, but tie your camel.

Arabian proverb

In combat there is this kind of elegance. The Japanese word for this is Shibumi. (A black Rolls Royce is Shibui, a gold plated convertible is just gaudy).

Frederick Loverat The way and the power

Everybody’s got plans . . . until they get hit.

Mike Tyson

. . . These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with.

Barak Obama

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo Da Vinchi

Knowledge is not a feather to be picked, it is a mountain to be climbed.                              

                                                                                                        Sven Jakobbson

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.

Vincent van Gogh

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