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"Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion."
"Wounds make better lessons than lectures."
"The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners."
"I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are."
"A watch is the most essential part of a lecture."
"Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary."
"People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded."
"The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone."
"You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too."
"Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked."
"Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a yawn and says,"I've heard all this before."Why is that? Why wouldn't both be affected the same way?Another mystery.""
