
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen

"Contrary to popular belief, the gene-centered theory of evolution does not imply that the point of all human striving is to spread our genes."

"Nietzsche often stresses that we start going wrong when we become captured by the picture of revealing 'reality.'"

"We think we understand each other, but we never really do."

"From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world."

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."

"But I wasn’t a Cardinal, nephew to the Pope, / and you— / you were not a Caravaggio. / So I asked you to be in my movie."

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More