If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Archibald MacLeish

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.

Santosh Kalwar

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

James Buchan

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

William Arthur Ward

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Source Unknown

I leave before being left. I decide.

Brigitte Bardot

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

James Gleick

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Kevin Kelly

I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, but they lost the state.

Abraham Lincoln

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

Cassandra Clare

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

Jennie Garth