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| The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. Cesare Pavese Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating. Michael Crichton Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. Alan Keightley Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persistes in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw ADDITIONS, 14/03/2003 Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946 I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde |