When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Mark Twain

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Thomas Jefferson

Imagine there was a pallet of $35M in cash that was plummeting through the atmosphere, and it was going to burn up.

Elon Musk

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

Felicity Huffman

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Albert Einstein

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

Michael Crichton

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Cameron Conaway

Ghost stars shine their light upon us, long after they're gone.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann