It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan…

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

— Anna Quindlen

The professors at Harvard are smarter and more world-renowned, and so your child will learn from a pre-eminent scholar who is a leader in…

— Andrew Yang

Harvard introduced the now famous ad hoc system whereby a group of experts in the field of the faculty member to be promoted are…

— Henry Rosovsky

[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all…

— Paul Laffoley

I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not…

— Eugene O'Neill

Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we…

— Edwin Boring

Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a ‘misfiring of…

— Karen Armstrong

“CARL SAGAN SAID that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. When he says “from…

— Nicola Yoon

“My kind of Supreme Being would rather that people worship no gods than false gods and would prefer eternal discourse with Carl Sagan than…

— Anonymous

“as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and witnesses, guessing…

— Christopher Hitchens

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

— Whoopi Goldberg

“My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call “mind”—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.…

— Michio Kaku