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“Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.”
Source : Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”
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“The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.”
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“Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.”
Source : "Art & Other Serious Matters" by Harold Rosenberg, University of Chicago Press, (p. 155), 1985.
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“The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.”
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“Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.”
Source : "The Abolition Of Torture". newrepublic.com. December 19, 2005. 
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“When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.”
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“If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ***** on the line.”
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“People invest in your ability to deliver to them a more favorable future.”
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“I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.”
Source : "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.
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“In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.”
