Quotes of: Campbell Keyword

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

Taylor Mali

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Science and Creationism

...always- the sharp, plaintive edge on the rim of the spoon of my giving. (lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

Slamming Open the Door

I can't repair my wall as fast as you can tear it down.

Santuario

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Pope Joan

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Pope Joan

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

Pope Joan

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

Pope Joan

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

Pope Joan

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

Pope Joan

P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

P53-knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless,impatient,continuing,hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

Chaim Potok

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

Elizabeth Warren

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson