The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. -C. S. Lewis-
Monthly Archives: February 2019
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Clarke’s Third Law of Prediction: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Having a time here. Wish you were wonderful.
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It does not require many words to speak the truth. -Chief Joseph, Nez Perce Tribe-
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If I could walk that way, I wouldn’t need the talcum powder.
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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper. -E.O. Wilson-
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When I really want a job, I spend hours polishing my cover letter, resume and writing samples, knowing that the hiring manager may spend all of 10 seconds in an initial review. When I don’t really want a job, I spend all of 10 seconds on my application, knowing a hiring manager may spend hours wondering what I was thinking in applying. -Steven Porter-
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There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician. -Glenn T. Seaborg-
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If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong.
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If you are dead, you don’t know you are dead. So it’s only bad for the people around you. Same with stupidity. -found on Facebook-