“My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.”

“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”

“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.”

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”

“Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.”

“When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.”

“Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'”