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“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.”

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Author:John N. Bahcall

“Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.”

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Author:Roger Bacon

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.”

“It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.”

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Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.”

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Author:Roger Ascham

“Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.”

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Author:George Berkeley

“Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love”

“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”

Years Science Learning Twenties

Book:The English Works. A New Ed

Source: The English Works. A New Ed

“It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.”

Knows Science Learning Trouble

Author:Josh Billings

“Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.”

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Author:Richard Hamming