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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

— Socrates, Greek Philosopher 

It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

— Martin Scorsese, American Director

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.

— Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

— J.K.Rowling, Author

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

— Isaac Newton, Physicist

People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

— Ayn Rand, Russian-American Novelist
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