1. ”Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour…..” – Albert Einstein
2. ”When you can’t smoke” – Rory Sutherland
3. ”Death does not concern us…” – Epicurus
4. ”I think it’s better to have ideas.” – Chris Rock
5. ”You gotta be able to smile…”
6. ”Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle…” – Buddha
7. I don’t like this expression “First world country problems”… – Teju Cole
8. ”Some things are best left unsaid.” – Red
9. ”However vast the darkness we must supply our own light” -Stanley Kubrick
10. ”It Takes Courage…” – E.E.Cummings
11. ”The world has enough for everyone’s need…” Mahatma Gandhi
12. ”I’m a f*cking unicorn, and f*ck anybody who say I’m not”-Tyler, The Creator
13. ”It is the mark of an educated mind…” – Aristotle
14. ”The two most important days in your life…” – Mark Twain
15. ”Be humble, for you are made of earth, be noble, for you are made of stars” – Serbian proverb
16. The ink of a scholar….- Prophet Muhammad
(“The ink of a scholar is greater than the blood of a martyr.” Well, this is debatable. Whichever one gets the message across is my opinion. Whats the purpose of words written without its reader? But sometimes martyrs are lost and literary works are reprinted through the ages. If they are valued and reprinted. Blood is more valuable and is more noticed. But it depends. It really does. Sometimes its just sad to see blood. Well, it is always sad to see blood spilled. But, sometimes, if someone really wants to make a difference and is left to that resort, id support their choice. Better than none.)
, while following the real history of Newton, Liebnitz, Hooke, Louis XIV, William II and all of Stephenson’s “characters” in a real history-of-science book (say, 
Another being, just like you, trying to understand what's around. 