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“But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.”

Men Lying Culture Learning Teaching Calling Dignity Accounts Shoes Educated Inherent Nails Pins

Book:Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838

Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838

“Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.”

Needs Mind School Education Learning Accounts Discouraged Distinguished

Author:John Lubbock

“Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.”

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Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”

Inspirational Reality Work Effort Learning Blessing Percent And Love Accounts Intelligence Dues Serendipity Work And Love

Author:Peter McWilliams

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

“A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.”

Men Science Given Learning Masters Accounts Horse Cease Beginners

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.”

Science Learning Ten Accounts London Miles Kingdoms Venture

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.”

Science Used Turns Term Learning Students Accounts Acquire Pale Tails Superficial Mock Consulting Pretender Eels Superficial Knowledge

Author:Alexander Pope

“Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.”

Science Learning Accounts Grammar Dictionary

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance

“Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.”

Mind Science Learning Accounts Disposition Vulgar Advancement Retard Vilify Advancement Of Science

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.”

Science Learning Accounts Realization Uncertainty Something New Surprising Astonishment

Author:Lewis Thomas

“Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.”

Source: On Social Structure and Science

“A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.”

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Book:Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

Source: Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society