"My films show the battle of the individual against circumstances - that eternal problematic of the ancient Greeks - the battle against gods, the battle of Prometheus. Similarly, we fight laws today, we fight the 'musts' that seem neither right nor fair in our time. We are always struggling" -Fritz Lang

"Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?" -Nietzsche

"In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." -Siddhartha

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company." -Jean-Paul Sartre

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Einstein

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." Carl Sagan ...

• "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." - Carl Sagan

"If you pretend to know only truth, in truth you know only pretence."

"If I had staid for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything out of it" - Newton

• "For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or become a slave to defend it." - Newton