Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.

You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

If a country complains that they don’t have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

I believe we have to take this step by step to try to reign in Iranian aggression, their support for terrorism and the other bad behavior that can come back and haunt us.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.