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- God is dead.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 108
- Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 116
- The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 130
- To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 158
- For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 283
- We are always in our own company.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 166
- I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 381
- We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921
- The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
- A clear conscience is a good pillow.
- American Proverb
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