You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)