Quotes 1/26/09

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
John Adams

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell

We can only handle you in doses.
Jacob Waite