"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.” -William James
"Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility may rest assured that he seeks in vain." — Hermann von HelmholtzAcademic Discourse (Heidelberg 1862)[1]