In the end we will conserve only what we love.
We will love only what we understand.
We will understand only what we are taught.
               -- Baba Didium -

Happiness is the uninterrupted pursuit of curiosity.
              -- Andrew Goldenkranz --

Every person is a builder of a temple called their body. Keep your body high on the list of environments to protect from pollution.
               -- Author unknown -
 

Occam's Razor (parsimony): When you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is better.
Note: This also works with answers to a test question.

We shall never cease from exploring,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to return to where we started
And know it for the first time
      --- T.S. Elliott --

My very chains and I grew friends,
So such a long communion tends
To make us what we are - even I
Regained my freedom with a sigh.
   -- Lord Byron --

The failure of language - the tyranny of moral generalization over social inspection - fed the ruling class's belief that it was endangered from below.
    -- Robert Hughes, "A Fatal Shore"

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences.
 . . . . R. G. Ingersoll . . . .

Compost Happens; Relationships Take Work
          -- Dr. H --

We show our values by how we spend our time and money,
      -- Dr. H --

Education is like Kroger. Take what you need but don't knock stuff off the shelves. Other people might want it, And you never know, your tastes might change.
        -- Dr H. --

If you always do
What you've always done
You always get
What you always got.
   --- From an AA meeting --
 

No man is an island, entire of itself
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.
             -  - John Donne -  -

The questions are more important than answers.
  Elie Weisel

"Surely there are in everyone's life certain connections, twists and turns which pass awhile under the category of Chance, but at last, well examined, prove to be the very hand of God."

Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, (from Further Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin)

I realize now that fighting (war) doesn't get rid of anything but 18-year-old boys.
          Merle Haggard

The study of myth is the search for that which connects us most deeply with our own nature and our place in the world.
   . . . .  Angeles Arrien . . .

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.  Herbert Spencer - from the Big Book of AA
 

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense."
         - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
 

"Education is not about getting a job to make money. It is about enriching the soul." - Unknown -

Knowledge can be passed along from person to person like a baton in a race, but the pursuit of knowledge, and love for the pursuit of knowledge, that particluar passion, can only be chosen -
     Sue Halpern, Four Wings and a Prayer (Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly)
 

Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.  -Daniel Webster -