Quotaria

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
- Harrison Ford

The young have aspirations that never come to pass,
the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
- Saki

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for
experiments, and they wander off through equation
after equation, and eventually build a structure
which has no relation to reality.
- Nikola Tesla

No man is exempt from saying silly things;
the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is a tragedy to those who
feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole