"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
-Gustave Flaubert
"Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong."
-Richard Feynman
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
-Sacha Guitry
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
-Homer Simpson
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
-Aldous Huxley
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
-John Ciardi
