“ At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life. John Vane
“ There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Albert Einstein
