The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. -W. E. B. Du Bois-
All posts by Bill Cupp
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They know enough who know how to learn. -Henry Adams-
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To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High. -Nicolaus Copernicus-
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C. S. Lewis-
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You laugh because I am different. I laugh because you are the same.
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Disinformation is not as good as datinformation.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein-
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God does not owe you the breath you just exhaled.
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“Keep using my name in vain, I’ll make rush hour longer.” -God-
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Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. -Admiral Hyman G. Rickover-