the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me...

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

This statement by Sir Isaac Newton shortly before his death in 1727 eloquently reflects the sentiments of all mature scientists from the ancient past to the present.

love is...

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

- Bible~I Corinthians 13:4-8

towards perfection...*

Who will make the task less complex?
And who will clear the million roads
That finally lead to perfection?

- Ya. Polonsky

hours of determined labour...

The single joy is work
In field, at bench, and table:
Work till the sweat runs hot,
Work without counting the cost,
Hours of determined labour.

- V. Bryusov

hail the path!

Hail the time!
Hail the path!
Be reckless:
Run the risk, don't be shy.

- P. Antokolsky