"Life
is no brief candle to me...
it is a sort of splendid torch
which I am permitted to hold for a moment...
I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations"
-
George Bernard Shaw
Quoted by J. Keith Brimacombe on the occasion of his
dinner speech in Ottawa at
which he received the NSERC
Canada Gold Medal, June 11, 1997.