At some point in time, the quotes listed below have appeared on my O-Chem exams...
I generally find them in books I am reading, or steal them from The Simpsons...
I fully realize that I have not succeeded in answering all of your questions... Indeed, I feel I have not answered any of them completely. The answers I have found only serve to raise a whole new set of questions, which only lead to more problems, some of which we weren't even aware were problems. To sum it all up... In some ways I feel we are confused as ever, but I believe we are confused on a higher level, and about more important things.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet, the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
Here's a warm welcome to all the intelligent life forms out there. And to the rest of you... the trick is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice,
Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket, with no way of escape, into which one may well dread to enter.
I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
Have more than though showest; speak less than thou knowest; lend less than thou owest
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
ATTEMPTED murder, what is that!? Do they give a Nobel Prize for ATTEMPTED chemistry? Well, do they?!
Moe: So this was all a scam. And on Christmas.
Barney: Yeah... Jesus must be spinning in his grave!
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep... in a giant blender
Man should practice moderation in all things, including moderation.
And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
This is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
There is no fear in science greater than that of being wrong. But the scientist who cannot act in the face of that fear stands little chance of changing textbooks.