Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73 ISBN 0760710058 </small> ; also in Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230 <small> ISBN 0743215362
Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) American mathematician
"A Scientist Rebels" Atlantic Monthly (Jan, 1947)
Context: The measures taken during the war by our military agencies, in restricting the free intercourse among scientists on related projects or even on the same project have gone so far that it is clear that if continued in time of peace, this policy will lead to the total irresponsibility of the scientist, and, ultimately, to the death of science.... The interchange of ideas, which is one of the greatest traditions of science, must of course receive certain limitations when the scientist becomes an arbiter of life and death.... I do not expect to publish any future work of mine which may do damage in the hands of irresponsible militarists...
“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
Attributed
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher
Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 150
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener
"Days I enjoy" quoted in Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1993) by Suzanne Raitt, p. 89
“Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours”
Rodman Philbrick book The Last Book in the Universe
Source: The Last Book in the Universe
“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
