“A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.”
Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
“If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.”
“Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.”
“Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.”
Source : Blog post, August 29, 2007.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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