Plato

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out and we have only just begun

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

Hello, Neil and Buzz. I’m talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.