“Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.”

– Dr. John G. Hibben

“Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service and it must be thought of as a mission.”

– Dr. Ralph Tyler

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”

– Edith Ann [Lily Tomlin]

“Education is soul crafting.”

– Cornel West

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.”

– Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.”

– Luther Burbank

“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.”

– Werner Heisenberg

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”

– Kilgore Trout

“Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.”

– Ellen Ochoa

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward”.

– Conrad Hall

“I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.”

-Carl Sagan