A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill