The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. – Henri Poincare
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. – Leonardo da Vinci
When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, its merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. – Alexei Navalny
