Apuleius

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

Charles Lindbergh

“I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve”. –Charles Lindbergh

Walter Raleigh

“Whosoever, in writing modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth”. –Walter Raleigh

Arthur C. Clarke

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now”. –Arthur C. Clarke

Francis Galton

“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands”. –Francis Galton

Christopher Columbus

“Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier”. –Christopher Columbus

Marco Polo

“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings; the whole of the Christians — and throw in the Saracens to boot — they would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world”. –Marco Polo

Thor Heyerdahl

“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds”. –Thor Heyerdahl