“The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.”
Dave Barry
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
Douglas Adams
“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
Charles Darwin
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
Camille Paglia
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers”
Gordon Gee
“Balkans - that taste for devastation, for internal clutter, for a universe like a brothel on fire the last "primitives" in Europe.”
Emile M. Cioran
