The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
-Jean Piaget, psychologist (9 Aug 1896-1980)
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
-James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 7 Aug 1928)
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
-P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
-James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987)
