"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction"