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

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

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

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

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

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

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

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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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