Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.