How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. – Alfred de Musset

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. – Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University