“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.” YearsTwoSoulFactsHappensHateFightingNationsTaughtCoupleThousandOceanYears AgoCrossesBridgesStreamsContinentsThousand YearsConstructsTwo Nations Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.” WorldWantHas BeensHappensNextEnergySpaceWatchesGoneStudentsTaughtSourceMajorsIntellectualCapacityMortalsAweBreakthroughSpace TravelRenewable EnergyEnergy SourcesRenewable Energy Sources Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.” PeopleHappensTaughtFamiliarCruelty Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow