Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave. Frederick Baily (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?" Erwin Chargaff

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. Robert A. Heinlein

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Arthur M. Schlesinger

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan

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

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' Isaac Asimov

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Heinrich Heine

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry B. Adams

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Carl Sagan

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. Robert A. Heinlein

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

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. Cornelius Vanderbilt

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

Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. John L. Phillips I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. David Byrne

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Daniel J. Boorstin