My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

I think love is blind. You don't see it, you don't hear what people are saying, or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country

I'm a warrior, I went into jail for the drama. I'm the story of the terrorist cell of Osama