"Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?"

“Don't drink fluoridated water...Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis.”

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.”

“The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

“Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.”

“The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all belongs to him, but that does not make it less interesting. We find that an X ray bulb with a platinum target gives out a sharp line spectrum of five wavelengths which the crystal separates out as if it were a diffraction grating. In this way one can get pure monochromatic X rays. Tomorrow we search for the spectra of other elements. There is here a whole new branch of spectroscopy, which is sure to tell one much about the nature of an atom.”

Source : "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 205), 1974.

“I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.”

Source : Rosika Schwimmer “Rosika Schwimmer, Appelant Vs. United States of America, Appellee”

“The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.”

“The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview With Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.