Chapter 5: Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking 107
‘Curiosity is one of the permanent
and certain characteristics
of a vigorous intellect.’ Samuel Johnson
‘One doesn’t discover new lands
without consenting to lose sight of the
shore for a very long time.’ Andre Gide
‘I question.’
Leonardo da Vinci’s motto
‘The disease of not listening.’
Shakespeare
‘Many ideas grow better when transplanted into
another mind than in the one where they sprung up.’
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr