It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

I give the children education.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.