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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no li...more

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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole...more

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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

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Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

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A student should not be taught more than he can think about.

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Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This...more

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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a ...more

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[Beware of] the fallacy of misplaced concreteness [mistaking an abstraction for concrete reality, for actuality] In the inescapable flux, there is som...more

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The solution which I am urging is to eradicate the fatal disconnection of subjects which kills the vitality of our modern curriculum. There is only on...more

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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple beca...more