Dr. Edward Lipper,
Part-Time Lecturer

"The mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled."
- Plutarch

"A good teacher is better than a spectacular teacher. Otherwise the teacher outshines the teachings."
- The Tao of Teaching

"Nature and Nature's Laws Lay Hid in Night,
  God said 'Let Newton Be',
  And All Was Light"
- Alexander Pope

" I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
- Isaac Newton

" Chance favors the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
- Albert Einstein

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
- Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

"Mathematics is a plan for getting from A to B without the benefit of wisdom"
  - Roger Pinkham

" 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics"
 - E.T. Bell

"A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become
by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia;
learning that shapes the future."
 - Drew Gilpin Faust

"Beware of geeks bearing formulas"
 - Warren Buffet

"Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise"
 - Chinese proverb

"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose..."

" Dolce far niente.."