"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats

"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." - Honore de Balzac

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." - Rita Mae Brown

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead

New York City has never been safer. Drug dealers and muggers no longer rule Times Square, and droves of residents in the Bronx and Brooklyn aren’t setting their apartments on […]

Neil deGrasse Tyson snapped this photograph of the Mahattanhenge, an event that occurs twice a year when the city’s grid takes on the special effects of Stonehenge. This Saturday, if […]