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• Well, I didn’t really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn’t pull up and leave when I felt like it.

  Diane Lane

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• Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Topics in Fear, Life

  Tags in School, Hope

• Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine’s cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

  William Shatner

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• Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Topics in Knowledge

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• False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

  Charles Darwin

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Facts, School, Science

• I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

  Suraj Sharma

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• It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving poor… Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid… The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

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• Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

  Max Planck

  Topics in Nature

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• There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; they’re the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

  Carl Sagan

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• Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

  Alexander Pope

  Topics in God, Nature

  Tags in Laws, Light, School, Science

• When I was in high school, everyone used to tell me that I should write and illustrate children’s books. Or mostly illustrate, because I guess there was something about my style that made people think it’d work in children’s literature. I didn’t really know anything about it, and like many people who don’t, I didn’t think it was a serious art form.

  Brian Selznick

  Topics in Art

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• I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn’t take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

  Brian Selznick

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• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Power, Technology

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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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• I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it’s a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don’t go running or hard hiking.

  Maria Semple

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• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Belief

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• Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

  Henri Poincare

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Wonder, School, Men, Science

• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Failure, Mistake

  Tags in Learning, School, Difficulties, Science