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- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw
- No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. — Thomas Huxley
- My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. — Eric Allin Cornell
- People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. — Mary Wesley
- We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. — Mary Wesley
- Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety. — Mary Wesley