A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli