Florence Nightingale
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
Florence Nightingale & Lynn McDonald, The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, 2001, Wilfried Laurier University Press, Canada, p681
Stephen Hawking
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Kristine Larsen, Stephen Hawking: A Biography, 2005, Greenwood Press, Oxford p42
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, 1988, Bantam,p156
Charles Darwin
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_darwin.html last access on 22/08/2007
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