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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: mentoring, teacher
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    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    “To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
    ― Henri Frederic Amiel
    tags: education, teacher, teaching
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: education
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    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
    tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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    Bill Watterson
    “I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.”
    ― Bill Waterson
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    Bill Watterson
    “CALVIN:
    This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
    If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
    And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
    HOBBES:
    I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
    CALVIN:
    Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: christmas, life, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    William Morris
    “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
    ― William Morris
    tags: interior-decorators
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  • #11
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
    tags: magic, science, technology, wonder
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    Bill Watterson
    “In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: humor, jerks, science
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    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Albert Einstein
    “Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

    Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
    ― Claude Levi-Strauss
    tags: questions, science
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    Michael Crichton
    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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    Clive James
    “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
    ― Clive James
    tags: logic, psychology, science
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    Jules Verne
    “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
    ― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: experience, failure, science
    710 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: invention, science
    396 likes

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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
    2611 likes

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  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, independent-thought, science
    280 likes



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