Education

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch

Science

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. 
- Feynman, Address to the National Science Teachers' Association

"Our scientific powers have outrun our spiritual powers; we have guided missiles and mis-guided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. [Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address]

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein

"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification." - Karl Popper

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." - Donald Knuth

"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." - Albert Einstein, 1932

Politics

The basis of a democratic state is liberty. - Aristotal

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. -Aristotle

General/Philosophy

" A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. "
- Einstein

" A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. "
- Einstein

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -Douglas Adams

"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." - The Matrix

"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." - The Matrix

"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities---the political, the religious, the educational authorities---who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing---forming in our minds---their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself." -Timothy Leary

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? - Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way - Henry David Thoreau

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

* "Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be - a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God. Men will beat their swords into plowshafts and their spears into pruning hooks, and nations shall not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war anymore." I don't know about you, I ain't going to study war anymore." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."  -Dune

"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race." - Bertrand Russell

"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin ... the great equalizer of the conditions of men - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor." --Horace Mann

Funny

"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' of which I wasn't previously aware." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger; but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for tidbits, so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons arrived." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Religion and Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. 
-Epicurus, "Letter to Menoeceus"

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. 
-Isaac Asimov 

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it. 
- Jim Morrison

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein

Other

Cigarette smoking is a major cause of statistics -Anonymous

Half our life is spent trying to find something to dowith the time we have rushed throuh life trying to save - Will Rogers

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic - Joseph Stalin

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. -Anonymous

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. - Plato

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. -Anonymouys

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar. - Unknown

Our greatest glory is not never failing but in rising each time we fall. -Unkown

You!! Out of the gene pool - Bumper Sticker

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. -Alfred Hitchcock

Concience is the inner voice that warns us someone might be looking. -H.L. Mencken

The trouble with real life is that there is no danger music. -The Cable Guy

Well kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. -Homer Simpson

Great minds discuss ideas. Average Minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -Unkown

Guys are like parking spaces. Almost all the good ones are taken, and the rest are handicapped. 

Everyminute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happyness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives. -Abba Eban

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. - William Safire

You do not have to be the greatest to do what it takes to win. -Unkown

The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Einstein

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. -Unkown

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going -Unkown

It is all fun and games until someone losses an eye. Then all the games you play are more fun because you cannot see whats coming. -James Hetfield

" Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. "
- Einstein

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." 
- George Bernard Shaw

" I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. "
- Feynman

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.-Aristotle

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.-Aristotle

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. - Aristotle

"I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. I felt like destroying something beautiful." - Fight Club

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time." - Fight Club

"I had it all, even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof that they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working, indigenous peoples of... wherever." - Fight Club

"I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person?" -Fight Club

"With a gun in your mouth you can only speak in vowels." - Fight Club

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." -Fight Club

"The things you own, end up owning you." -Fight Club (Probably stolen from Walden)

"Contrary to what your mothers and teachers tell you, you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are all part of the same compost heap." - Fight Club

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind." -Timothy Leary

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." - Richard Feynman

"Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you.... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it to be sure." -Raimond Verwei