Imagination,
not intelligence,
made us human.
Terry Pratchett, The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy, 2003
The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
Larry Page, Business Week, 2004
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness, [and] is absolutely awesome.
Douglas Adams, 2001
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
Robert Heinlein, Revolt in 2100, 1953
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.
Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, 1965