Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Genius appeals to the future.

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.