I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

Science is often misrepresented as the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory. Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

Jared Diamond

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain

A man without words is a man without thought.

John Steinbeck

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Michael Korda

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god -- Society, The State, The Government, The Commune -- must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

Rose Wilder Lane

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Gerald W. Grumet

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Johann von Goethe

It's been a rough day. I got up this morning...put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the bathroom!

Rodney Dangerfield

Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The CrackUp