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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "that's funny. . . ." [Asimov, quoted in Art of the Start, xi]

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." [Samuel Johnson, quoted in Art of the Start, 211.

"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength." [Hasidic saying, quoted in Art of the Start, 3]