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Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born on August 28, 1749, and died on March 22, 1832, was a prominent German writer, thinker, and scientist. He is one of the greatest writers in German literary history and his works have had a profound impact on the world. His most famous works include 'Faust' and 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. more

“In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.”

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Book:The Way to Life: Sermons

Source: The Way to Life: Sermons

“A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.”

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Book:Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority

Source: Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority

“Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.”

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Book:Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

“God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.”

Source: The Prose Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Letters and Correspondence, Literary and Critical, and Amatory Epistles Including Letters to Clarinda, &c., &c

“I'll teach you differences.”

Science Differences Teach Teaching

Book:William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.”

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Author:Louis Agassiz

“The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.”

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