Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.