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• Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that…
• The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but…
• How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities…
• Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with…
• [I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no…
• The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled…
• [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their…
• [When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as…
• The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts…
• Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before…
• The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.
• That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define it. One…

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