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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement… — Gilbert Burnet
Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher — James Garner
The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery! — Wanda Landowska
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo
The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in… — Susan C. Aldridge
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. — John Goddard
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds… — John Locke
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the… — Bertrand Russell
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. — Izaak Walton
I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I… — Suzan-Lori Parks
The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps… — Salomon Bochner
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult… — H. Bentley Glass
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. — Max Gluckman
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself. — Giles Rich
I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late. — Richie Ashburn
There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do .… — Charles Simonds
Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of… — William Henry Bragg

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