It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. – Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies

The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. – Albert Camus, Le Suicide philosophique

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. – Nicholas Murray Butler