Unschoolers Umbrella Quotes & Sayings

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them. — Albert Claude

And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up:
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters. — Virgil

What is real? Is there more to reality than meets the eye? Yes! was Plato's answer over two millennia ago. In his famous cave analogy, he likened us to people who'd lived their entire lives shackled in a cave, facing a blank wall, watching the shadows cast by things passing behind them, and eventually coming to mistakenly believe that these shadows were the full reality. Plato argued that what we humans call our everyday reality is similarly just a limited and distorted representation of the true reality, and that we must free ourselves from our mental shackles to begin comprehending it. — Max Tegmark

I don't know why you're fighting it, Len. One, he's frigging gorgeous. Two, he's so frigging gorgeous you need to count it twice. Three, he saw you fall down and left practice to see if you were okay. That's, like, devotion. — Josephine Angelini

Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don't have guys who throw it really well, you can't compete for long. — Tucker Elliot

Women are tough and rather coarse. They were built for the raw, crude work of bearing children. You'd be amazed at what they can do when they divert that baby-hatching energy into some other enterprise. — Tom Robbins

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character. — Zach Woods

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted. — Vera Brittain

Dark elf!" Belwar called as loudly as he dared. "Dark elf, take your panther away. Dark elf! — R.A. Salvatore

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news. — Peter Lynch

A tank and its crew has but one reason to exist. To maneuver the tank's cannon to a position where it could do the most damage and feed it once it was there. — Harold Coyle

Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing. — Soren Kierkegaard

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I'm the one with the injector. (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon