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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

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

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

"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

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison