“It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldHumansHardBlackHuman BeingsAssumingPracticalsHolesApplicationQuestsBlack Hole Author:Yuri Milner
“In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.” ThinkingShouldRememberYoungYouthAssumingUrgesRelativeRemembers Everything Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.” WorldShouldMeanEnoughValuesNationsAchieveBearsInstitutionsAssumingAccomplishLabelsAppealsMinoritiesPatriotismImmenseExceptionalDeliberateWidowsDiscerningSmall Nations Author:Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
“Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.” ThinkingShouldLooksArtDoneTaughtFlowAssumingTaught UsImpressionists Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.” IfsWayShouldChildrenFoundEducationTeachLearningTeacherAssumingRight WayResearchersTeaching ChildrenChildren LearningBad Teacher Author:Marie Clay