“The study of the atmosphere is a problem in hydrodynamics, and I have found it so interesting and difficult that it seems to me to be the problem of my life.”— Cleveland Abbe
“No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.”— Leon Battista Alberti
“I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.”— Joshua Slocum
“In the morning, at the height of my powers, I sowed the seed in Britain, now in the evening, when my blood is growing cold, I am still sowing in France, and I pray to God that it may spring up in both lands.”— Alcuin
“Utter truth is essential... and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.”— Margaret Bourke-White