“Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.”
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Carl Sagan: 'Science Is a Way of Thinking', Science Friday interview from May 1996
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“Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.”
Source: The Lost Colony

Interview with Carl Anderson http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/89/ (1979). Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California.

“He was over at my house every day between fifth grade and eighth grade.”
On his childhood relationship with John Mayer
From Outtakes with James Blake, June 23, 2003 issue of ESPN Magazine http://espn.go.com/talent/danpatrick/s/2003/0609/1565617.html
"The Decline of Academic Freedom at Dartmouth College", 20 October 2005.
Letter published in "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth", 2005

Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); cited from Michael Cox (ed.) Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) pp. 337-8.
“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”