I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Alice Cooper

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Theodore Roosevelt

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Graham Norton

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Oscar Wilde

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

Gregor Mendel

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Johann von Goethe

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Eugene Delacroix

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Francis Bacon

All I can be is me- whoever that is.

Bob Dylan

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Paul Gauguin