The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

Nikola Tesla, “Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World”, Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934). (via crookedindifference)

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Mark Twain

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Now it feels like Christmas..