It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair
Smarts
You’re not smart enough to tell me how to live. – Kathy Shaidle
Expertise
Nobody is an expert on the future. – Matt Linderman
Improvisation
Great improvisers are like priests. They are thinking only of their God. – Stéphane Grappelli
Habit
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, it’s a habit. – Aristotle
Sex and Science
Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that’s not the reason we’re doing it. – Richard Feynman
Commas
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. – Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
Trust
It is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. — Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, January 8, 1789
Research
If academic research is not devoted to finding the truth, it is a form of propaganda, and not necessarily to be preferred to other forms, much cheaper and perhaps more persuasive. – Conrad Russell (Academic Freedom. London: Routledge. 1993)
Data
If they do that with marks and grades, should they be trusted with experimental data? – Harry Erwin, PhD