4549 N Quotes & Sayings

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. — Carl Sagan

Better to be a guarded person than an open book — RJ Heaton

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily. — Roger Moore

What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see. — Steve Mann

I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith. — Piers Paul Read

All progress comes from the creative minority. — George Gilder