"Terror and a beauty insoluble are a ribband
of blue woven into the fringes of garments of things both great and small."
--Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim At Tinker Creek"

"I hear the wind blow, I hear the wind blow
It seems to say "Hello, hello, I'm the one who loves you so." --They Might Be Giants, "Fingertips"

"The first snowfall of winter is gently floating down
It doesn't seem to settle, only hover over town." --"First Snowfall"

"Save the whales. Collect the whole set." --Anonymous

"The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogren and stupidity."
     --Harlan Ellison

 "Earth -- what a s--hole."
    --Johner, "Alien: Resurrection"
 
"It seems the winter makes you laugh a little slower, makes you talk a little lower..." --Counting Crows, "Long December."

"Spring is here! Spring is here. Life is Skittles and life is beer. I do think
the loveliest time of the year is the spring, I do. Don't you? 'Course
you do!" --Tom Lehrer, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"

"My kitten walks on velvet feet
And makes no sound at all,
And in the doorway nightly sits
to watch the darkness fall
I think he loves the lady, Night
And feels akin to her
Whose footsteps are as still as his,
Whose touch as soft as fur." --Lois Weakley McKay, "Night"

"Hey, you know what?  Screw you, Greenland!"  --Crow T. Robot
 

Education/Science

"Carrying a destination sign while hitchhiking is a lot like going to college. Even though deep down inside
it may not mean anything, it's a convenient way of explaining to people what you're up to." --Ken Hicks, "The Complete Hitchhiker"

"Physical Education is what you learn from having your face in someone's armpit right before lunch." --Calvin, "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes"

"Why in the world am I waiting in the pouring rain for the school bus to take me somewhere I don't even want to go?...I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know." --Calvin, "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes"

"When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can even think at all." --Paul Simon, "Kodakchrome"

"Education is not filling a bucket, it is lighting a fire." -- Unknown

"If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." --Sir Isaac Newton

"For the life of me I cannot remember what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise...for the life of me, I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen." --The Verve Pipe, "The Freshmen."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." --Pablo Picasso

"I think there is a world market for about five computers."
    --Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
        -- Bill Gates, 1981

"If it was so, it might and if it were so it would be, but as it isn't,
it ain't.  That's logic."
      --Lewis Caroll

"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct,
even our friends."
 --C.C. Colton

"It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious." --Roger Berg

"Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the
half-witted, becasue we appreciate only a third part of their wit." --Henry David Thoreau

"College is a fountain of knowledge, and the students are there to drink." --Anonymous

"Whenever anyone says "theoretically," they really mean, "not really." --Dave Parnas

"Those who fear they may cast pearls before swine are often lacking in pearls." --Carl Sandburg

"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"
 --Diogenes of Sinope

"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being
so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
 --Aleister Crowley, of his geometry lessons.

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

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

"Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes"
    --Alice Cooper, American Poet

"Truth comes in three stages.  First, it is disbelieved; second it is
violently opposed; third it is accepted as self-evident."
-Schopenhauer

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. "
     - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
     - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
     - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)