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"To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new."
"Making it a valid law to learn by suffering."
"If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game."
"In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate."
"The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence."
"Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore."
"Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste."
"As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth."
"Shortcuts aren't always."
"Nobody can pedal the bike for you."
"A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket."
"You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well."
"Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose."
"Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust."
"The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus."
"Sometimes it's smart to be scared."
"Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself."
"In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves."
"When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation."
"Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience."
