"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous." ― Carl Sagan Topic(s): Good More From Carl Sagan "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." "We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." "I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students." More In Good "We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld "There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all – it’ll be ten o’clock and they’ll tell you it’s nine. You’re looking at the clock and you can’t even fathom why they’re lying. They just lie because that’s what they do."― John Cusack "Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."― Frank Lloyd Wright