The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. – Goethe

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. – Bergen Evans, “A Tale of a Tub,” The Natural History of Nonsense

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. – Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality, 1986