Haldane, when asked if his studies had taught him anything about the creator: "An inordinate fondness for beetles"

Chairman Mao, when asked to comment on the significance of the French revolution: "It's too early to tell."

[paraphrase] "Whatever you do will be not be important, but it is very important that you do it". Gahndi.

Metrodorus of Chios, a disciple of Epicurus, wrote, "It would be strange if a single ear of corn grew in a large plain or were there only one world in the infinite."