If you know what it is that you are looking for, then indeed there no need to undertake a search, and if you don’t know what it is that you are looking for then really there’s no basis upon which to conduct a search. Hence the search for truth becomes an idle activity.

-Mino in regards to Socrates’ search for truth. Of course Sacrate’s puts the smack down on Mino’s argument.

We are like puppets, and the Gods can move us any which way they will by pulling on these strings, but we have one string that we can pull back on, and that string is the golden string of reason.

-Plato

Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

-Richard Feynman