“One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.”

“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ”

“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”

“The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.”

“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”

“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”

“Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?”

“One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives whe...”

“And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.”

“my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.”

“Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.”

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”