“Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…”

They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Men may be born free

Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.

Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

We learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Cities at daybreak are no one’s, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.