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Experience comprises illusions lost rather than wisdom gained.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear rather than science.

After all sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words keeping the asset whole rather than undermining your natural capital.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor it is rather to be rejoiced in than lamented that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income but rather to education.

An education program is by definition a societal program. Work should be done at school rather than at home.

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.