"Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant."
"Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth."
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Source: Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia, 1936.
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