Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Finance people should remember Albert Einstein’s wise words: “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting to achieve different results’. He was a clever chap, that Einstein fella. And, according to him, I must have been insane. Because I kept on working hard, and I kept on expecting to be rewarded, even though my hard work had never been rewarded before. I didn’t have any evidence to suggest that I’d be rewarded. It wasn’t a rational belief. It all came down to optimism. Blind, debilitating optimism.

If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.