Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect, for nature is only subdued by submission.

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.