When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Anyone who likes golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

Andy Rooney

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Carl Gustav Jung

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Imre Lakatos

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

Yuri Milner

Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it well?My Mother.

Anon.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

Kristen Wiig

If you don't understand how somethingworks, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don'tknow how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understandhow memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesisa bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't goto work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.

Richard Dawkins

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

J.K. Rowling

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Neil Gaiman

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Antoine De SaintExupery