Quotations

1. Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.           H. L. Mencken

2. Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.   Bertrand Arthur William Russell, mathematician

3. Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.  (George Bernard Shaw)