“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He ...” — Leonardo da Vinci Quote

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.”

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

“The unraveling of our home planet is a mental disorder in which thoughs and feelings are so impaired they have no relationship to external reality. Wild is the opposite. It is when our thoughts, feelings, and actions are exquisitely sensity to our relationship with the living world and each other.”

“Canonization, limitation, and reduction of God to a “few” sentences are inconceivable attempts to kill and expel God from people under the excuse that God is doing that. There is no weakness in science and language as instruments. There is no excuse. There is only human power and weakness. Understanding depends on the balance between human strengths and weaknesses.”

“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.”

“The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.”

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”