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*"Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to
 mortals, but by long seeking, mortals make progress in discovery."

                                             - Xenophanes of Colophon

*"The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you
 their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth."

                                             - Dante

*"If we wish to understand the nature of the Universe we have an inner
 hidden advantage: we are ourselves little portions of the universe and
 so carry the answer within us."

                              - Jacques Boivin, The Heart Single Theory

*"Computers are useless. They can only give you the answers."

                                              - Pablo Picasso

*"Who knows what secrets of nature lay buried in the terabytes of data
 being generated each day by physicists studying the results of numerical
 simulations or the image of a distant galaxy. Given the volume and
 complexity of scientific data, visualization in the physical sciences
 has become a necessity in the modern scientific world."

                                               - Robert Wolff

*"The most exotic journey would not be to see a thousand different places,
 but to see a single place through a thousand person's eyes."

                                               - Unknown

*The earthworm burrowing through the soil encounters another earthworm
 and says "Oh, you're beautiful! Will you marry me?" and is answered:
 "Don't be silly! I'm your other end."

                                               - Robert Heinlein

*"The ascent of life is a hierarchy of organizations continually
 becoming more complex and more versatile. And so with the ascent of
 matter, from the single electron or proton to the numerous and
 enormously complicated colony of electrical particles which make up
 the bacterium - it too is a hierarchy of continually increasing
 complexity, or relationships, of organization."

                                              - George W. Gray, 1937

*"It seems that nobody is indifferent to fractals. In fact, many view
 their first encounter with fractal geometry as a totally new
 experience from the viewpoints of aesthetics as well as science."

                          - Benoit B. Mandelbrot, The Beauty of Fractals

*"Mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable
 that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or
 biology. But humanity certainly won't ever be able to find out every-
 thing in mathematics, because the subject is infinite. Numbers
 themselves are infinite."

                                                   - Paul Erdos

*"One sign of an interesting program is that you cannot readily predict
 its output."

  - Brian Hayes, "On the bathtub algorithm for dot-matrix holograms" (1986)

*"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first
 one, too, was made out of chaos."

                                               - Robert Quillen

*"Chaos and chance are words to describe phenomena of which we are
 ignorant."

                                              - Sven G. Carlson

*"In a world as crazy as this one, it ought to be easy to find something
 that happens solely by chance. It isn't."

               - Kevin McKeen, in "The Orderly Persuit of Pure Disorder"

*"The primary source of all mathematics are the integers."

                                           - Herman Minkowski

*"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possess not only truth, but supreme
 beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

                            - Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic, 1918

*"When I consider ... the small part of space which I can touch or see
 engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know
 me not, I am frightened and astonished..." (Pick90, Leonardo)

*"The external world exists; the structure of the world is ordered; we
 know little about the nature of the order, nothing at all about why it
 should exist."

                  - Martin Gardner, 1985, paraphrasing Bertrand Russell

*"Nature's great book is written in mathematical symbols."

                                              - Galileo

*"Prehaps an angel of the Lord surveyed an endless sea of chaos, then
 troubled it gently with his finger. In this tiny and temporary swirl
 of equations, our cosmos took shape."

                                              - Martin Gardner



