“Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.”— Rupert Brooke
“True happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”— Robert Adams
“To be happy without a reason is the most authentic form of happiness.”— Carlos Drummond de Andrade
“The great joy of science is the joy of discovering something that no one knew before.”— David Baltimore
“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves.”— Roger Bannister
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”— J. M. Barrie
“Of all the amusements which can possibly be imagined for a hard-working man... there is nothing more delightful than science.”— John Herschel
“For when the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.”— Aaron Hill