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There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be… — Arthur C. Clarke
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not… — H. L. Mencken
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the… — Hermann Weyl
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could… — Benjamin Bloom
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. — Ben Shahn
I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the… — Emanuel Lasker
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part… — Richard Avedon
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like… — Susan Sontag
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of… — Robert Adams
There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to… — Paul Q. Hirst
There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to… — Lisa Lane
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is… — John Burroughs
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed… — Peter Singer
God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on… — Anna Sewell
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all… — Sigurd F. Olson

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