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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
Diane Ackerman— An Alchemy of Mind : The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (2004) ISBN 0743246721
They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.
paula poundstone— About science education in the state of Kansas; quoted in Randi, James (November 11, 2006). "A Sure Test". Swift. James Randi Educational Foundation. Retrieved on 2006-11-18.
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
Randall Jarrell— Ch. 2, p. 66
In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice . Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon.com would be formidable.
— Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, (2010), p. 218
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?
stephen jay gould— "Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", p. 246
