Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery
War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. – Paul Davies