Quotes

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Nelson Mandela

Life is unfoldment, and the more we travel the more truth we can understand.

Hypatia of Alexandria

It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most
  intelligent, but rather the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Yogi Berra

Science is the art of systematic simplification.

Karl Popper

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.

E.O. Wilson
in Consilence: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)

I know too much to tackle that. I’m a strong believer that ignorance is important in science. If you know too much, you start seeing why things won’t work. That’s why it’s important to change your field, to collect more ignorance.

Sydney Brenner
Winner of 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine
for the establishment of C. elegans as a model organism in developmental biology

What did you want to do when you were a child, before anybody told you what you were supposed to do? What was it you wanted to become?

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Linchpin by Seth Godin