To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.