“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.” — Aristotle

“Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.” — Leibniz

“The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.” — Cocteau

“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.” — Thelonious Monk

“The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.” — Anonymous

“The not distinguishing where things should be distinguished, and the not confounding where things should be confounded, is the cause of all the mistakes in the world.” — John Selden

“Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.” — Horace

“The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.” — Bertrand Russell

“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.” — C.S. Lewis