Quotes

"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly." 

Arnold Edinborough

"Why does the feeling which accompanies awareness of sensory information exist at all?"

David Chalmers

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: a complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a simple system.”

John Gall, systems theorist

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Nelson Mandela 

Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others.

 Alain, French Philosopher

Propos d’un Normand (1908); as quoted in "Natural selection and cultural rates of change" by D. S. Rogers and P. R. Ehrlich (2008) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:3416–3420