But whatever his weight in pounds, shillings, and ounces, he always seems bigger because of the bounces.

A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you think education is expensive, consider the cost of ignorance.

Derek Bok

An adult scientist is a kid that never grew up.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Douglas Adams, “The Salmon of Doubt”

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

Albert Einstein

Everyone makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils.

Lenny Lenard, “The Simpsons”

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

Richard Dawkins, “The God Delusion”

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Richard Feynman

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance, that gets smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

Arguing with Christians is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are at chess, the pigeon will shit on the board, knock over the pieces and strut around victoriously.

Scott D. Weitzenhoffer

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

Graham Greene, “The Third Man”

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.

A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

Bill Hicks