"All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other." ― George Eliot Topic(s): Dad Tags: father, learnin More From George Eliot "Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?" "Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive." "The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions." More In Dad "I love being a dad. I’d have more kids if I could. I’d take a couple more, one or two more before I croak."― Richie Sambora "Let’s stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent."― Marco Rubio "When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad’s limp – my dad was my hero – but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it."― David Alan Grier